... documents and find that the fea-ture vectors corresponding to some of these docu-ments (particularly the short ones) have all zeroes in them. In other words, none of the bigrams from the training set ... available.612Finally, previous work has also investigated fea-tures that do not fall into any of the above cate-gories. For instance, instead of representing the polarity of a term using a binary value, ... cap-turing two different situations, one in which the author himself likes the movie, and in the other, the author’s cousin likes the movie. The over-generalization resulting from these “stemmed”...