A feature selection method based on improved fisher's discriminant ratio for text sentiment classification

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 8696-8702

  Wang, Suge ^a,b   Li, Deyu ^a,b   Song, Xiaolei ^a   Wei, Yingjie ^c   Li, Hongxia ^a  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c Science China Press   (China)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Fisher's discriminant ratio; Support vector machine; Text sentiment classification

Indexed keywords

FEATURE SELECTION; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; FEATURE SETS; FISHER'S DISCRIMINANT; FISHER'S DISCRIMINANT RATIO; INFORMATION GAIN; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION; TEXT SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXT PROCESSING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 79952444436     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.01.077     Document Type: Article

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