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On the Impact of Dataset Characteristics on Arabic Document Classification

by Diab Abuaiadah, Jihad El Sana, Walid Abusalah
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 101 - Number 7
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Diab Abuaiadah, Jihad El Sana, Walid Abusalah
10.5120/17701-8680

Diab Abuaiadah, Jihad El Sana, Walid Abusalah . On the Impact of Dataset Characteristics on Arabic Document Classification. International Journal of Computer Applications. 101, 7 ( September 2014), 31-38. DOI=10.5120/17701-8680

@article{ 10.5120/17701-8680,
author = { Diab Abuaiadah, Jihad El Sana, Walid Abusalah },
title = { On the Impact of Dataset Characteristics on Arabic Document Classification },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { September 2014 },
volume = { 101 },
number = { 7 },
month = { September },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 31-38 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume101/number7/17701-8680/ },
doi = { 10.5120/17701-8680 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Jihad El Sana
%A Walid Abusalah
%T On the Impact of Dataset Characteristics on Arabic Document Classification
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 101
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%P 31-38
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

This paper describes the impact of dataset characteristics on the results of Arabic document classification algorithms using TF-IDF representations. The experiments compared different stemmers, different categories and different training set sizes, and found that different dataset characteristics produced widely differing results, in one case attaining a remarkable 99% recall (accuracy). The use of a standard dataset would eliminate this variability and enable researchers to gain comparable knowledge from the published results.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Dataset TF-IDF representation Arabic Stemmers Arabic document classification