This document provides an overview of text classification and the Naive Bayes algorithm for text classification. It begins by defining text classification and giving examples like spam filtering and document classification. It then explains supervised classification and the goal of learning a classifier from labeled training data. The document spends several slides explaining the Naive Bayes algorithm for text classification, including the Naive Bayes assumption of conditional independence between features. It discusses parameter estimation and smoothing techniques to avoid overfitting. Finally, it compares the multivariate Bernoulli and multinomial Naive Bayes models for text classification.