I want a machine to learn to categorize short texts

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Published on 2010-04-23T05:23:43Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 7:23 UTC
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Hello,

I have a ton of short stories about 500 words long and I want to categorize them into one of, let's say, 20 categories:

  • Entertainment
  • Food
  • Music
  • etc

I can hand-classify a bunch of them, but I want to implement machine learning to guess the categories eventually. What's the best way to approach this? Is there a standard approach to machine learning I should be using? I don't think a decision tree would work well since it's text data...I'm completely new in this field.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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