Hybrid support vector machine based feature selection method for text classification
Joint Authors
Ayyash, Musab
Sabah, Thabit
Ashraf, Mahmud
Source
The International Arab Journal of Information Technology
Publisher
Publication Date
2018-05-31
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
English Abstract
Automatic text classification is an effective solution used to sort out the increasing amount of online textual content.
However, high dimensionality is a considerable impediment observed in the text classification field in spite of the fact that there have been many statistical methods available to address this issue.
Still, none of these has proved to be effective enough in solving this problem.
This paper proposes a machine learning based feature ranking and selection method named Support Vector Machine based Feature Ranking Method (SVM-FRM).
The proposed method utilizes Support Vector Machine (SVM) learning algorithm for weighting and selecting the significant features in order to obtain better classification performance.
Later on, hybridization techniques are applied to enhance the performance of SVM-FRM method in some experimental situations.
The proposed SVM-FRM method and its enhancement are tested using three text classification public datasets.
The achieved results are compared with other statistical feature selection methods currently used for the said purpose.
Results evaluation shows higher and superior F-measure and accuracy performances of the proposed SVM-FRM on balanced datasets.
Moreover, a noticeable performance enhancement is recorded due to the application of the proposed hybridization techniques on an unbalanced dataset.
Data Type
Conference Papers
Record ID
BIM-896588
American Psychological Association (APA)
Sabah, Thabit& Ashraf, Mahmud& Ayyash, Musab. 2018-05-31. Hybrid support vector machine based feature selection method for text classification. International Arab Conference on Information Technology (18 : 2017 : Zarqa, Jordan). . Vol. 15, no. 3A (Special issue) (2018), pp.599-609.Zarqa Jordan : Zarqa University.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Sabah, Thabit…[et al.]. Hybrid support vector machine based feature selection method for text classification. . Zarqa Jordan : Zarqa University. 2018-05-31.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Sabah, Thabit& Ashraf, Mahmud& Ayyash, Musab. Hybrid support vector machine based feature selection method for text classification. . International Arab Conference on Information Technology (18 : 2017 : Zarqa, Jordan).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-896588