Categorical term descriptor: a proposed term weighting scheme for feature selection

• Main Authors: Bong, Chih How, Kulathuramaiyer, Narayanan, Wong, Ting Kiong
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: AC Collections. Series. Collected works; T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1196/1/categorical%2Bterm%2Bdescriptor%2B%2BA%2Bproposed%2Bterm%2Bweighting%2Bscheme%2Bfor%2Bfeature%2Bselection%2528abstract%2529.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1196/

This paper proposes a term weighting scheme, categorical term descriptor (CTD), for feature selection in automated text categorization. CTD is an adaptation of the term frequency inverse document frequency (TFIDF). We compared the performance of the proposed method against classical methods such as...