A NEW FEATURE SELECTION METHOD FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (02) ◽  
pp. 423-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
GULDEN UCHYIGIT ◽  
KEITH CLARK
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Text Classification ◽  
Information Gain ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Feature Space ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Small Subset ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
New Feature

Text classification is the problem of classifying a set of documents into a pre-defined set of classes. A major problem with text classification problems is the high dimensionality of the feature space. Only a small subset of these words are feature words which can be used in determining a document's class, while the rest adds noise and can make the results unreliable and significantly increase computational time. A common approach in dealing with this problem is feature selection where the number of words in the feature space are significantly reduced. In this paper we present the experiments of a comparative study of feature selection methods used for text classification. Ten feature selection methods were evaluated in this study including the new feature selection method, called the GU metric. The other feature selection methods evaluated in this study are: Chi-Squared (χ2) statistic, NGL coefficient, GSS coefficient, Mutual Information, Information Gain, Odds Ratio, Term Frequency, Fisher Criterion, BSS/WSS coefficient. The experimental evaluations show that the GU metric obtained the best F1 and F2 scores. The experiments were performed on the 20 Newsgroups data sets with the Naive Bayesian Probabilistic Classifier.

A CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM FOR INDONESIAN AND MALAY NEWS DOCUMENTS

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (8-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jafreezal Jaafar ◽  
Zul Indra ◽  
Nurshuhaini Zamin
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Text Classification ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
Online News ◽  
Language Identification ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Accuracy Rate ◽  
Similar Morphology ◽  
Manual Classification

Text classification (TC) provides a better way to organize information since it allows better understanding and interpretation of the content. It deals with the assignment of labels into a group of similar textual document. However, TC research for Asian language documents is relatively limited compared to English documents and even lesser particularly for news articles. Apart from that, TC research to classify textual documents in similar morphology such Indonesian and Malay is still scarce. Hence, the aim of this study is to develop an integrated generic TC algorithm which is able to identify the language and then classify the category for identified news documents. Furthermore, top-n feature selection method is utilized to improve TC performance and to overcome the online news corpora classification challenges: rapid data growth of online news documents, and the high computational time. Experiments were conducted using 280 Indonesian and 280 Malay online news documents from the year 2014 – 2015. The classification method is proven to produce a good result with accuracy rate of up to 95.63% for language identification, and 97.5%% for category classification. While the category classifier works optimally on n = 60%, with an average of 35 seconds computational time. This highlights that the integrated generic TC has advantage over manual classification, and is suitable for Indonesian and Malay news classification.

scholarly journals A New Feature Selection Method for Text Classification Based on Independent Feature Space Search

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Liu ◽  
Shenggen Ju ◽  
Junfeng Wang ◽  
Chong Su
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Text Classification ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Feature Space ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
Feature Subset ◽  
Search Range ◽  
Text Documents

Feature selection method is designed to select the representative feature subsets from the original feature set by different evaluation of feature relevance, which focuses on reducing the dimension of the features while maintaining the predictive accuracy of a classifier. In this study, we propose a feature selection method for text classification based on independent feature space search. Firstly, a relative document-term frequency difference (RDTFD) method is proposed to divide the features in all text documents into two independent feature sets according to the features’ ability to discriminate the positive and negative samples, which has two important functions: one is to improve the high class correlation of the features and reduce the correlation between the features and the other is to reduce the search range of feature space and maintain appropriate feature redundancy. Secondly, the feature search strategy is used to search the optimal feature subset in independent feature space, which can improve the performance of text classification. Finally, we evaluate several experiments conduced on six benchmark corpora, the experimental results show the RDTFD method based on independent feature space search is more robust than the other feature selection methods.

scholarly journals Enhanced Classification Method for Phishing Emails Detection

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-63
Author(s):  
Y. Mansour Mansour ◽  
Majed A. Alenizi
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Information Gain ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Search Space ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Accuracy Rate ◽  
Communication Method

Emails are currently the main communication method worldwide as it proven in its efficiency. Phishing emails in the other hand is one of the major threats which results in significant losses, estimated at billions of dollars. Phishing emails is a more dynamic problem, a struggle between the phishers and defenders where the phishers have more flexibility in manipulating the emails features and evading the anti-phishing techniques. Many solutions have been proposed to mitigate the phishing emails impact on the targeted sectors, but none have achieved 100% detection and accuracy. As phishing techniques are evolving, the solutions need to be evolved and generalized in order to mitigate as much as possible. This article presents a new emergent classification model based on hybrid feature selection method that combines two common feature selection methods, Information Gain and Genetic Algorithm that keep only significant and high-quality features in the final classifier. The Proposed hybrid approach achieved 98.9% accuracy rate against phishing emails dataset comprising 8266 instances and results depict enhancement by almost 4%. Furthermore, the presented technique has contributed to reducing the search space by reducing the number of selected features.

scholarly journals English Text Classification Using Improved Recursive Feature Elimination (IRFE) Algorithm: تصنيف النص الإنجليزي باستخدام الخوارزمية العودية المحسنة لإزالة الخواص (IRFE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esraa H. Abd Al-Ameer, Ahmed H. Aliwy
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Text Classification ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
English Text ◽  
Recursive Feature Elimination ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Data Set ◽  
New Feature

Documents classification is from most important fields for Natural language processing and text mining. There are many algorithms can be used for this task. In this paper, focuses on improving Text Classification by feature selection. This means determine some of the original features without affecting the accuracy of the work, where our work is a new feature selection method was suggested which can be a general formulation and mathematical model of Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE). The used method was compared with other two well-known feature selection methods: Chi-square and threshold. The results proved that the new method is comparable with the other methods, The best results were 83% when 60% of features used, 82% when 40% of features used, and 82% when 20% of features used. The tests were done with the Naïve Bayes (NB) and decision tree (DT) classification algorithms , where the used dataset is a well-known English data set “20 newsgroups text” consists of approximately 18846 files. The results showed that our suggested feature selection method is comparable with standard Like Chi-square.

scholarly journals Feature selection to improve generalization of genetic programming for high-dimensional symbolic regression

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Chen ◽  
Mengjie Zhang ◽  
Bing Xue
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Genetic Programming ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
Symbolic Regression ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
High Dimensional ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Personal Use ◽  
New Feature

When learning from high-dimensional data for symbolic regression (SR), genetic programming (GP) typically could not generalize well. Feature selection, as a data preprocessing method, can potentially contribute not only to improving the efficiency of learning algorithms but also to enhancing the generalization ability. However, in GP for high-dimensional SR, feature selection before learning is seldom considered. In this paper, we propose a new feature selection method based on permutation to select features for high-dimensional SR using GP. A set of experiments has been conducted to investigate the performance of the proposed method on the generalization of GP for high-dimensional SR. The regression results confirm the superior performance of the proposed method over the other examined feature selection methods. Further analysis indicates that the models evolved by the proposed method are more likely to contain only the truly relevant features and have better interpretability. © 2017 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.

scholarly journals The Impact of Feature Selection Methods for Classifying Arabic Textual Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1333-1338
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Text Classification ◽  
Information Gain ◽  
Feature Space ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
K Nearest Neighbors ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Selection Algorithms ◽  
The Impact

Text classification is a vital process due to the large volume of electronic articles. One of the drawbacks of text classification is the high dimensionality of feature space. Scholars developed several algorithms to choose relevant features from article text such as Chi-square (x2 ), Information Gain (IG), and Correlation (CFS). These algorithms have been investigated widely for English text, while studies for Arabic text are still limited. In this paper, we investigated four well-known algorithms: Support Vector Machines (SVMs), Naïve Bayes (NB), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), and Decision Tree against benchmark Arabic textual datasets, called Saudi Press Agency (SPA) to evaluate the impact of feature selection methods. Using the WEKA tool, we have experimented the application of the four mentioned classification algorithms with and without feature selection algorithms. The results provided clear evidence that the three feature selection methods often improves classification accuracy by eliminating irrelevant features.

Indonesian News Classification Using Naïve Bayes and Two-Phase Feature Selection Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 610 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ali Fauzi ◽  
Agus Zainal Arifin ◽  
Sonny Christiano Gosaria
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Text Classification ◽  
Information Gain ◽  
Information Filtering ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Feature Space ◽  
Online News ◽  
New Method ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Two Phase

Since the rise of WWW, information available online is growing rapidly. One of the example is Indonesian online news. Therefore, automatic text classification became very important task for information filtering. One of the major issue in text classification is its high dimensionality of feature space. Most of the features are irrelevant, noisy, and redundant, which may decline the accuracy of the system. Hence, feature selection is needed. Maximal Marginal Relevance for Feature Selection (MMR-FS) has been proven to be a good feature selection for text with many redundant features, but it has high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a two-phased feature selection method. In the first phase, to lower the complexity of MMR-FS we utilize Information Gain first to reduce features. This reduced feature will be selected using MMR-FS in the second phase. The experiment result showed that our new method can reach the best accuracy by 86%. This new method could lower the complexity of MMR-FS but still retain its accuracy.

Enhancing Effectiveness of Dimension Reduction in Text Classification

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (03) ◽  
pp. 1750008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyyed Hossein Seyyedi ◽  
Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Feature Selection ◽  
Dimension Reduction ◽  
Text Classification ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Information Gain ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Feature Space ◽  
Spam Detection ◽  
Selection Methods

Nowadays, text is one prevalent forms of data and text classification is a widely used data mining task, which has various application fields. One mass-produced instance of text is email. As a communication medium, despite having a lot of advantages, email suffers from a serious problem. The number of spam emails has steadily increased in the recent years, leading to considerable irritation. Therefore, spam detection has emerged as a separate field of text classification. A primary challenge of text classification, which is more severe in spam detection and impedes the process, is high-dimensionality of feature space. Various dimension reduction methods have been proposed that produce a lower dimensional space compared to the original. These methods are divided mainly into two groups: feature selection and feature extraction. This research deals with dimension reduction in the text classification task and especially performs experiments in the spam detection field. We employ Information Gain (IG) and Chi-square Statistic (CHI) as well-known feature selection methods. Also, we propose a new feature extraction method called Sprinkled Semantic Feature Space (SSFS). Furthermore, this paper presents a new hybrid method called IG_SSFS. In IG_SSFS, we combine the selection and extraction processes to reap the benefits from both. To evaluate the mentioned methods in the spam detection field, experiments are conducted on some well-known email datasets. According to the results, SSFS demonstrated superior effectiveness over the basic selection methods in terms of improving classifiers’ performance, and IG_SSFS further enhanced the performance despite consuming less processing time.

scholarly journals Feature selection to improve generalization of genetic programming for high-dimensional symbolic regression

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Chen ◽  
Mengjie Zhang ◽  
Bing Xue
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Genetic Programming ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
Symbolic Regression ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
High Dimensional ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Personal Use ◽  
New Feature

When learning from high-dimensional data for symbolic regression (SR), genetic programming (GP) typically could not generalize well. Feature selection, as a data preprocessing method, can potentially contribute not only to improving the efficiency of learning algorithms but also to enhancing the generalization ability. However, in GP for high-dimensional SR, feature selection before learning is seldom considered. In this paper, we propose a new feature selection method based on permutation to select features for high-dimensional SR using GP. A set of experiments has been conducted to investigate the performance of the proposed method on the generalization of GP for high-dimensional SR. The regression results confirm the superior performance of the proposed method over the other examined feature selection methods. Further analysis indicates that the models evolved by the proposed method are more likely to contain only the truly relevant features and have better interpretability. © 2017 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.

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