Title: Feature Selection Based on Minimal Redundancy Principle for Text Classification
Abstract:In text classification tasks,these well-known feature selection methods such as information gain adopt conditional independence assumption between various features.However,this assumption would result...In text classification tasks,these well-known feature selection methods such as information gain adopt conditional independence assumption between various features.However,this assumption would result in serious redundancy problems among various selected features.To alleviate the redundancy problem within the selected feature subset,this paper proposed a method based on minimal redundancy principle(MRP) for feature selection,in which correlations between different features are considered in feature selection process,and a feature subset with less redundancy can be built.Experimental results showed that MRP method can improve the effectiveness of feature selection,and results in better text classification performance(in most cases).Read More
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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