Title
Effective Feature Selection Technique For Text Classification
Abstract
Text classification plays a vital role in the organisation of the unceasing growth of digital documents. High dimensionality of feature space is a major hassle in text classification. Feature selection, an effective preprocessing technique improves the computational efficiency and the accuracy of a text classifier. In the present paper, text classification is performed with Zipf's law-based feature selection and the use of linear SVM weight for feature ranking. A hybrid feature selection method combining these two feature selection techniques is proposed. Nearest neighbour and SVM classifiers are chosen as text classifiers for their good classification accuracy reported in many text classification tasks. Moreover, to investigate the effect of kernel type on the text classification both linear and non-linear kernels in SVM are examined. The performance is evaluated by determining classification accuracy using ten-fold cross-validation. Experimental results with four benchmark corpuses were encouraging and demonstrated that the classification performance using hybrid feature selection method outperformed the classification performance obtained by selecting either medium frequent features based on Zipf's law or using feature selection by linear SVM.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1504/IJDMMM.2015.071451
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DATA MINING MODELLING AND MANAGEMENT
Keywords
Field
DocType
text classification, SVM classifier, nearest neighbour classifier, feature selection
Data mining,Feature selection,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Classifier (linguistics),k-nearest neighbors algorithm,Feature vector,Pattern recognition,Feature (computer vision),Support vector machine,Curse of dimensionality,Linear classifier,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
3
1759-1163
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
24
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
hari seetha131.82
M. Narasimha Murty282486.07
R. Saravanan3597.99