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The third character specifies the "normalization" component, which
can take the following values:

=over 4

=item c

Apply cosine normalization - multiply by 1/length(document_vector).

=item x

No change - multiply by 1.

=back

The three components may alternatively be specified by the
C<term_weighting>, C<collection_weighting>, and C<normalize_weighting>
parameters respectively.

=item verbose

If set to a true value, some status/debugging information will be
output on C<STDOUT>.

=back


=item categories()

In a list context returns a list of all Category objects in this
KnowledgeSet.  In a scalar context returns the number of such objects.

=item documents()

In a list context returns a list of all Document objects in this
KnowledgeSet.  In a scalar context returns the number of such objects.

=item document()

Given a document name, returns the Document object with that name, or
C<undef> if no such Document object exists in this KnowledgeSet.

=item features()

Returns a FeatureSet object which represents the features of all the
documents in this KnowledgeSet.

=item verbose()

Returns the C<verbose> parameter of this KnowledgeSet, or sets it with
an optional argument.

=item scan_stats()

Scans all the documents of a Collection and returns a hash reference
containing several statistics about the Collection.  (XXX need to describe stats)

=item scan_features()

This method scans through a Collection object and determines the
"best" features (words) to use when loading the documents and training
the Learner.  This process is known as "feature selection", and it's a
very important part of categorization.

The Collection object should be specified as a C<collection> parameter,
or by giving the arguments to pass to the Collection's C<new()> method.

The process of feature selection is governed by the
C<feature_selection> and C<features_kept> parameters given to the
KnowledgeSet's C<new()> method.

This method returns the features as a FeatureVector whose values are
the "quality" of each feature, by whatever measure the
C<feature_selection> parameter specifies.  Normally you won't need to
use the return value, because this FeatureVector will become the
C<use_features> parameter of any Document objects created by this
KnowledgeSet.

=item save_features()

Given the name of a file, this method writes the features (as
determined by the C<scan_features> method) to the file.

=item restore_features()

Given the name of a file written by C<save_features>, loads the
features from that file and passes them as the C<use_features>
parameter for any Document objects created in the future by this
KnowledgeSet.

=item read()

Iterates through a Collection of documents and adds them to the
KnowledgeSet.  The Collection can be specified using a C<collection>
parameter - otherwise, specify the arguments to pass to the C<new()>
method of the Collection class.

=item load()

This method can do feature selection and load a Collection in one step
(though it currently uses two steps internally).

=item add_document()

Given a Document object as an argument, this method will add it and
any categories it belongs to to the KnowledgeSet.

=item make_document()

This method will create a Document object with the given data and then
call C<add_document()> to add it to the KnowledgeSet.  A C<categories>
parameter should specify an array reference containing a list of
categories I<by name>.  These are the categories that the document
belongs to.  Any other parameters will be passed to the Document
class's C<new()> method.

=item finish()

This method will be called prior to training the Learner.  Its purpose
is to perform any operations (such as feature vector weighting) that
may require examination of the entire KnowledgeSet.