Re-Sampling methods are some of the different types of approaches proposed to deal with the class-imbalance problem. Although
such approaches are very simple, tuning them most effectively is not an easy task. In particular, it is unclear whether oversampling
is more effective than undersampling and which oversampling or undersampling rate should be used. This paper presents an experimental
study of these questions and concludes that combining different expressions of the resampling approach in a mixture of experts
framework is an effective solution to the tuning problem. The proposed combination scheme is evaluated on a subset of the
REUTERS-21578 text collection (the 10 top categories) and is shown to be very effective when the data is drastically imbalanced.
We would like to thank Rob Holte and Chris Drummond for their useful comments. This research was funded, in part, by an NSERC
grant. The work conducted in this paper was conducted at Dalhousie University.