Research Article

Improved Distance Functions for Instance-Based Text Classification

Table 4

Comparing the distance metrics with their improved versions (with , , and set to 1).

Distance functionEVDMEISCDMFISCDMCISCDM
AverageW/T/LAverageW/T/LAverageW/T/LAverageW/T/L

VDM80.497/10/1
ISCDM86.9911/5/287.116/9/387.4110/5/3