Text Feature Selection Method for Hierarchical Classification
ZHU Cui-Ling1,2, MA Jun1, ZHANG Dong-Mei1
1.School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250101 2.School of Information Management, Shandong Economic University, Jinan 250014
Abstract：An approach of feature selection for hierarchical classification is proposed. Firstly, the concept of category hierarchical correlation degree is introduced and it is calculated according to the category tree and the probability distribution of training data on different levels. Then, the importance degrees of categories are computed according to hierarchical correlation degree. Finally, the discriminative abilities of features are calculated based on the previous computation and the features with the greater discriminative ability are chosen as the feature set for classification. Experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms the traditional feature selection methods on both quality of the features selected and standard classification metrics in terms of accuracy, F1 and micro-precision.
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