Feature reduction techniques for arabic text categorization

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2347-2352

  Duwairi, Rehab ^a   Al Refai, Mohammad Nayef ^a   Khasawneh, Natheer ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIC TEXTS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION TIME; DATA SETS; DOCUMENT VECTORS; FEATURE REDUCTION; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; PRECISION AND RECALL; WORD-CLUSTERS;

CLASSIFIERS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TEXT PROCESSING; VECTORS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 70349898535     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21173     Document Type: Article

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