A global-ranking local feature selection method for text categorization

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 12851-12857

  Pinheiro, Roberto H W ^a   Cavalcanti, George D C ^a   Correa, Renato F ^a   Ren, Tsang Ing ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ALOFT; Feature selection; Filtering method; Text categorization; Variable Ranking

Indexed keywords

ALOFT; FEATURE EVALUATION; FILTERING METHOD; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; LOCAL FEATURE SELECTIONS; REUTERS-21578; TEXT CATEGORIZATION; TRAINING SETS; VARIABLE RANKING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 84865003955     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.05.008     Document Type: Article

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