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> What's wrong with the Naive Bayes classifier?

The problem I found is that it mixes up the binomial and the multinomial event models for the naive bayes (See http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~knigam/papers/multinomial-aaaiws98.pd... for reference). It computes the probabilities as per the binomial event model but doesn't include the probabilities of missing events. This was my understanding from reading the source code.

> Plus you get to work in Python, which is a big advantage for me.

Indeed. I so wish someone would build a dependency parser on top of pfp so that I can ditch Stanford parser. I have used https://github.com/dasmith/stanford-corenlp-python for interfacing with Stanford toolkit but it is somewhat brittle.



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