Helmholtz principle based supervised and unsupervised feature selection methods for text mining |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Computer Engineering, Do?u? University, Istanbul, Turkey;2. Department of Computer Engineering, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey;1. Institute of Computing, Federal University of Amazonas, AM, Brazil;2. Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, MG, Brazil;3. Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, SP, Brazil;1. Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Santiago, Chile;2. Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile;3. CONICET, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina;4. Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria |
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| Abstract: | One of the important problems in text classification is the high dimensionality of the feature space. Feature selection methods are used to reduce the dimensionality of the feature space by selecting the most valuable features for classification. Apart from reducing the dimensionality, feature selection methods have potential to improve text classifiers’ performance both in terms of accuracy and time. Furthermore, it helps to build simpler and as a result more comprehensible models. In this study we propose new methods for feature selection from textual data, called Meaning Based Feature Selection (MBFS) which is based on the Helmholtz principle from the Gestalt theory of human perception which is used in image processing. The proposed approaches are extensively evaluated by their effect on the classification performance of two well-known classifiers on several datasets and compared with several feature selection algorithms commonly used in text mining. Our results demonstrate the value of the MBFS methods in terms of classification accuracy and execution time. |
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