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Nilophar Mulani et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications
ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 3, Issue 6, Nov-Dec 2013, pp.1271-1275

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Discussion on Different Algorithm for Text Classification and
Feature Selection
Nilophar Mulani, Yoginath Kalshetty
Department of Computer Science& Engg. College of engg. Pandharpur
Department of Computer Science & engg. College of engg. Pandharpur

Abstract
In different application domains as well as areas of research text classification is one of the well studied
problems. So there is need to enhance the effective and efficient algorithm for text classification .There are
many algorithm presented by different authors over the successfully and accurate text classification by
different researchers. Each algorithm presented are specific to applications or some other domains of research.
Some techniques presented are based on data mining and machine learning domains. The main aim of this paper
is to summarize the different types of algorithm presented for text classification. In this paper we have presented
the key components for text classification which will be helpful for researcher to understand the existing
techniques of text classification. First we will give the overview of why there is need for feature reduction and
different technique for feature selection, then the key components of text classification system. Later we will
discuss the different algorithm of text classification.
Keywords: feature clustering, Text Classification, Feature selection

I.

Introduction

As the data grows in size day by day,there is
big demand for text classification. So that required
data can be accessed easily.Text classification is a
supervised learning task for assigning text document
to pre-defined classes of document. It is used to find
valuable information from huge collection of text
document available in digital libraries, knowledge
database, the World Wide Web. Artificial intelligence
provides many learning methods and paradigm to
represent, interpret and acquire domain knowledge to
help other document. As the dataset has huge size and
complexity ,data dimensionality reduction has
become a primary need before text classification.
Feature reduction can be used to reduce the
dimensionality of feature vector .there are three ways
for feature reduction. Feature selection and feature
extraction and feature clustering .feature clustering is
one of the powerful method for feature reduction.
Text classification with fuzzy logic provides a better
forum to categorize the text and web document. When
it combined with feature clustering technique it highly
improves the result.some of application in this field
are sensitive text classification technique, cyber
terrorism investigation, spam filtering .because the
unlabeled data is easy to store but not helpful as the
labeled data.
Some key methods, which are commonly
used for feature selection are described in section 2
.we will describe decision tree methods for text
classification in section 3. Rule based classifiers are
described in detail in section 4. We discuss naïve
Bayes classifiers in section 5.. In section 6, we will
discuss SVM classifier. In section 7 we will conclude.
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II.

Feature Selection for Text
Classification

Before any classification task, one of the
most fundamental tasks that needs to be accomplished
is that of document representation and feature
selection. While feature selection is also desirable in
other classification tasks, it is especially important in
text classification due to the high Dimensionality of
text features and the existence of irrelevant (noisy)
features. In general, text can be represented in two
separate ways. The first is as a bag of words, in which
a document is represented as a set of words, together
with their associated frequency in the document. Such
a representation is essentially independent of the
sequence of words in the collection. The second
method is to represent text directly as strings, in
which each document is a sequence of words. Most
text classification methods use the bag-of-words
representation because of its simplicity for
classification purposes. In this section, we will
discuss some of the methods which are used for
feature selection in text classification. The most
common feature selection which is used in both
supervised and unsupervised applications is that of
stop-word removal and stemming. In stop-word
removal, we determine the common words in the
documents which are not specific or discriminatory to
the different classes. In stemming, different forms of
the same word are consolidated into a single word.
For example, singular, plural and different tenses are
consolidated into a single word. We note that these
methods are not specific to the case of the
classification problem, and are often used in a variety
of unsupervised applications such as clustering and
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indexing. In the case of the classification problem, it
makes sense to supervise the feature selection process
with the use of the class labels. This kind of selection
process ensures that those features which are highly
skewed towards the presence of a particular class
label are picked for the learning process. A wide
variety of feature selection methods are discussed in
[133, 135]. Many of these feature selection methods
have been compared with one
2.1 Gini Index
One of the most common methods for
quantifying the discrimination level of a feature is the
use of a measure known as the gini-index. Let p1(w) .
. . pk(w) be the fraction of class-label presence of the
k different classes for the word w. In other words,
pi(w) is the conditional probability that a document
belongs to class i, given the fact that it contains the
word w.
2.2 Information Gain
Another related measure which is commonly
used for text feature selection is that of information
gain or entropy. Let Pi be the global probability of
class i, and pi(w) be the probability of class i, given
that document contains the word w.
Let F(w) be the fraction of the documents containing
the word w. The information gain measure I(w) for a
given word w is defined as follows:

2.3 Mutual Information
This mutual information measure is derived
from information theory , and provides a formal way
to model the mutual information between the features
and the classes. The point wise mutual information
Mi(w) between the word w and the class i is defined
on the basis of the level of co-occurrence between the
class i and word w. We note that the expected cooccurrence of class i and word w on the basis of
mutual independence is given by Pi . Either of these
measures may be used in order to determine the
relevance of the word w. The second measure is
particularly useful, when it is more important to
determine high levels of positive correlation of the
word w with any of the classes.
2.4 χ2-Statistic
The χ2 statistic is a different way to compute
the lack of independence between the word w and a
particular class i. Let n be the total number of
documents in the collection, pi(w) be the conditional
probability of class i for documents which contain w,
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Pi be the global fraction of documents containing the
class i, and F(w) be the global fraction of documents
which contain the word w .As in the case of the
mutual information, we can compute a global χ2
statistic from the class-specific values. We can use
either the average of maximum values in order to
create the composite value.We note that the χ2statistic and mutual information are different ways of
measuring the
correlation between terms and
categories. One major advantage of the χ2-statistic
over the mutual information measure is that it is a
normalized value, and therefore these values are
more comparable across terms in the same category.

III.

Decision Tree Classifiers

A decision tree [6] is essentially a
hierarchical decomposition of the (training) data
space, in which a predicate or a condition on the
attribute value is used in order to divide the data
space hierarchically. In the context of text data, such
predicates are typically conditions on the presence or
absence of one or more words in the document. The
division of the data space is performed recursively in
the decision tree, until the leaf nodes contain a certain
minimum number of records, or some conditions on
class purity. The majority class label (or costweighted majority label) in the leaf node is used for
the purposes of classification. For a given test
instance, we apply the sequence of predicates at the
nodes, in order to traverse a path of the tree in topdown fashion and determine the relevant leaf node. In
order to further reduce the over fitting, some of the
nodes may be be pruned by holding out a part of the
data, which are not used to construct the tree. The
portion of the data which is held out is used in order
to determine whether or not the constructed leaf node
should be pruned or not. In particular, if the class
distribution in the training data (for decision tree
construction) is very different from the class
distribution in the training data which is used for
pruning, then it is assumed that the node overfits the
training data. Such a node can b pruned. In the
particular case of text data, the predicates for the
decision tree nodes are typically defined in terms of
the underlying text collection.

IV.

Rule-based Classifiers

Decision trees are also generally related to
rule-based classifiers. In rule-based classifiers, the
data space is modeled with a set of rules, in which the
left hand side is a condition on the underlying feature
set, and the right hand side is the class label. The rule
set is essentially the model which is generated from
the training data. For a given test instance, we
determine the set of rules for which the test instance
satisfies the condition on the left hand side of the rule.
We determine the predict class label as a function of
the class labels of the rules which are satisfied by the
test instance. In its most general form, the left hand
side of the rule is a boolean condition, which is
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expressed in Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF).
However, in most cases, the condition on the left hand
side is much simpler and represents a set of terms, all
of which must be present in the document for the
condition to be satisfied. The absence of terms is
rarely used, because such rules are not likely to be
very informative for sparse text data, in which most
words in the lexicon will typically not be present in it
by default (sparseness property). Also, while the set
intersection of conditions on term presence is used
often, the union of such conditions is rarely used in a
single rule. This is because such rules can be split into
two separate rules, each of which is more informative
on its own. We note that decision trees and decision
rules both tend to encode rules on the feature space,
except that the decision tree tends to achieve this goal
with a hierarchical approach. In fact, the original
work on decision tree construction in C4.5 [6] studied
the decision tree problem and decision rule problem
within a single framework. This is because a
particular path in the decision tree can be considered a
rule for classification of the text instance. The main
difference is that the decision tree framework is a
strict hierarchical partitioning of the data space,
whereas rule-based classifiers allow for overlaps in
the decision space. The general principle is to create a
rule set, such that all points in the decision space are
covered by at least one rule. In most cases, this is
achieved by generating a set of targeted rules which
are related to the different classes, and one default
catch-all rule, which can cover all the remaining
instances. A number of criteria can be used in order to
generate the rules from the training data. Two of the
most common conditions which are used for rule
generation are those of support and confidence. These
conditions are common to all rule-based pattern
classifiers [88] and may be defined as follows:
Support: This quantifies the absolute number of
instances in the training data set which are relevant to
the rule. For example, in a corpus containing 100,000
documents, a rule in which both the left-hand set and
right-hand side are satisfied by 50,000 documents is
more important than a rule which is satisfied by 20
documents.
Essentially, this quantifies the statistical
volume which is associated with the rule. However, it
does not encode the strength of the rule.
Confidence: This quantifies the conditional
probability that the right hand side of the rule is
satisfied, if the left-hand side is satisfied. This is a
more direct measure of the strength of the underlying
rule. We note that the afore-mentioned measures are
not the only measures which are possible, but are
widely used in the data mining and machine learning
literature [12] for both textual and non-textual data,
because of their intuitive nature and simplicity of
interpretation. One criticism of the above measures is
that they do not normalize for the a-priori presence of
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different terms and features, and are therefore prone
to misinterpretation, when the feature distribution or
class-distribution in the underlying data set is skewed.
The training phase constructs all the rules, which are
based on measures such as the above. For a given test
instance, we determine all the rules which are relevant
to the test instance. Since we allow overlaps, it is
possible that more than one rule may be relevant to
the test instance.
If the class labels on the right hand sides of
all these rules are the same, then it is easy to pick this
class as the relevant label for the test instance.
On the other hand, the problem becomes more
challenging when there are conflicts between these
different rules. A variety of different methods are
used to rank-order the different rules [12], and report
the most relevant rule as a function of these different
rules. For example, a common approach is to rankorder the rules by their confidence, and pick the top-k
rules as the most relevant. The class label on the
right-hand side of the most number of these rules is
reported as the relevant one. Aim interesting rulebased classifier for the case of text data has been
proposed in [13]. This technique uses an iterative
methodology, which was first proposed in [14] for
generating rules. Specifically, the method determines
the single best rule related to any particular class in
the training data. The best rule is defined in terms of
the confidence of the rule, as defined above. This rule
along with its corresponding instances are removed
from the training data set. This approach is
continuously repeated, until it is no longer possible to
find strong rules in the training data, and complete
predictive value is achieved.The transformation of
decision trees to rule-based classifiers is discussed
generally in [6], and for the particular case of text
data in [15].
For each path in the decision tree a rule can
be generated, which represents the conjunction of the
predicates along that path. One advantage
of the rule-based classifier over a decision tree is that
it is not restricted to a strict hierarchical partitioning
of the feature space, and it allows for overlaps and
inconsistencies among the different rules. Therefore,
if a new set of training examples are encountered,
which are related to a new class or new part of the
feature space, then it is relatively easy to modify the
rule set for these new examples. Furthermore, rulebased classifiers also allow for a tremendous
interpretability of the underlying decision space.

V.

Probabilistic and Naive Bayes
Classifiers

Probabilistic classifiers are designed to use
an implicit mixture model for generation of the
underlying documents. This mixture model typically
assumes that each class is a component of the
mixture. Each mixture component is essentially a
generative model, which provides the probability of
sampling a particular term for that component or
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class. This is why this kind of classifiers are often
also called generative classifier. The naive Bayes
classifier is perhaps the simplest and also the most
commonly used generative classifers. It models the
distribution of the documents in each class using a
probabilistic model with independence assumptions
about the distributions of different terms. Two classes
of models are commonly used for naive Bayes
classification. Both models essentially compute the
posterior probability of a class, based on the
distribution of the words in the document. These
models ignore the actual position of the words in the
document, and work with the “bag of words”
assumption. The major difference between these two
models the assumption in terms of taking (or not
taking) word frequencies into account, and the
corresponding approach for sampling the probability
space:
Multivariate Bernoulli Model:
In this model, we use the presence or
absence of words in a text document as features to
represent a document. Thus, the frequencies of the
words are not used for the modeling a document, and
the word features in the text are assumed to be binary,
with the two values indicating presence or absence of
a word in text. Since the features to be modeled are
binary, the model for documents in each class is a
multivariate Bernoulli model.
Multinomial Model:
In this model, we captuer the frequencies
of terms in a document by representing a document
with a bag of words. The documents in each class
can then be modeled as samples drawn from a
multinomial word distribution. As a result, the
conditional probability of a document given a class is
simply a product of the probability of each observed
word in the corresponding class.
No matter how we model the documents in
each class (be it a multivariate Bernoulli model or a
multinomial model), the component class models
(i.e., generative models for documents I each class)
can be used in conjunction with the Bayes rule to
compute the posterior probability of the class for a
given document, and the class with the highest
posterior probability can then be assigned to the
document. There has been considerable confusion in
the literature on the differences between the
multivariate Bernoulli model and the multinomial
model. In the following, we describe these two
models in more detail.
5.1 Bernoulli Multivariate Model
This class of techniques treats a document as
a set of distinct words with no frequency information,
in which an element (term) may be either present or
absent. The seminal work on this approach may be
found in [82]. Let us assume that the lexicon from
which the terms are drawn are denoted by V = {t1 . . .
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tn}. Let us assume that the bag-of-words (or text
document) in question contains the terms Q = {ti1 . . .
tim }, and the class is drawn from {1 . . . k}. Then, our
goal is to model the posterior probability that the
document (which is assumed to be generated from the
term distributions of one of the classes) belongs to
class i, given that it contains the terms Q = {ti1 . . .
tim}. The best way to understand the Bayes method is
by understanding it as a sampling/generative process
from the underlying mixture model of classes. The
Bayes probability of class i can be modeled by
sampling a set of terms T from the term distribution
of the classes: If we sampled a term set T of any size
from the term distribution of one of the randomly
chosen classes, and the final outcome is the set Q,
then what is the posterior probability that we had
originally picked class i for sampling? The a-priori
probability of picking class i is equal to its fractional
presence in the collection. We denote the class of the
sampled set T by CT and the corresponding posterior
probability by P(CT = i|T = Q). This is essentially
what we are trying to find. It is important to note that
since we do not allow replacement, we are essentially
picking a subset of terms from V with no frequencies
attached to the picked terms. Therefore, the set Q may
not contain duplicate elements. Under the naive
Bayes assumption of independence between terms,
this is essentially equivalent to either selecting or not
selecting each term with a probability that depends
upon the underlying term distribution. Furthermore, it
is also important to note that this model has no
restriction on the number of terms picked.

VI.

SVM classifiers

Support-vector machines were first proposed
for numerical data. The main principle of SVMs is to
determine separators in the search space which can
best separate the different classes. Support vector
machines (SVMs) have been recognized as one of the
most successful classification and computational
complexity of training in support vector machines
may be independent of the dimension of the feature
space, reducing computational complexity is an
essential issue to efficiently handle a large number of
terms in practical applications of text classification. In
this paper, we adopt novel dimension reduction
methods to reduce the dimension of the document
vectors dramatically. We also introduce decision
functions for the centroid-based classification
algorithm and support vector classifiers to handle the
classification problem where a document may belong
to multiple classes. Our substantial experimental
results show that with several dimension reduction
methods that are designed particularly for clustered
data, higher efficiency for both training and testing
can be achieved without sacrificing prediction
accuracy of text classification .

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VII.

Conclusions

The classification problem is one of the most
fundamental problems in the machine learning and
data mining literature. In the context of text data, the
problem can also be considered similar to that of
classification of discrete set-valued attributes, when
the frequencies of the words are ignored. The
domains of these sets are rather large, as it comprises
the entire lexicon. Therefore, text mining techniques
need to be designed to effectively manage large
numbers of elements with varying frequencies.
Almost all the known techniques for classification
such as decision trees, rules, Bayes methods, nearest
neighbor classifiers, SVM classifiers, and neural
networks have been extended to the case of text data.
Recently, a considerable amount of emphasis has
been placed on linear classifiers such as neural
networks and SVM classifiers, with the latter being
particularly suited to the characteristics of text data.
In recent years, the advancement of web and social
network technologies have lead to a tremendous
interest in the classification of text documents
containing links or other meta-information. Recent
research has shown that the incorporation of linkage
information into the classification process can
significantly improve the quality of the underlying
results.

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