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Hybrid Feature Selection for Amharic News Document Classification

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  • Demeke Endalie
  • Getamesay Haile

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Today, the amount of Amharic digital documents has grown rapidly. Because of this, automatic text classification is extremely important. Proper selection of features has a crucial role in the accuracy of classification and computational time. When the initial feature set is considerably larger, it is important to pick the right features. In this paper, we present a hybrid feature selection method, called IGCHIDF, which consists of information gain (IG), chi-square (CHI), and document frequency (DF) features’ selection methods. We evaluate the proposed feature selection method on two datasets: dataset 1 containing 9 news categories and dataset 2 containing 13 news categories. Our experimental results showed that the proposed method performs better than other methods on both datasets 1and 2. The IGCHIDF method’s classification accuracy is up to 3.96% higher than the IG method, up to 11.16% higher than CHI, and 7.3% higher than DF on dataset 2, respectively.

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  • Demeke Endalie & Getamesay Haile, 2021. "Hybrid Feature Selection for Amharic News Document Classification," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2021, pages 1-8, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:5516262
    DOI: 10.1155/2021/5516262
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