A comparative study of TF*IDF, LSI and multi-words for text classification

  • Authors:
  • Wen Zhang;Taketoshi Yoshida;Xijin Tang

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China;School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Ashahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan;Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

One of the main themes in text mining is text representation, which is fundamental and indispensable for text-based intellegent information processing. Generally, text representation inludes two tasks: indexing and weighting. This paper has comparatively studied TF*IDF, LSI and multi-word for text representation. We used a Chinese and an English document collection to respectively evaluate the three methods in information retreival and text categorization. Experimental results have demonstrated that in text categorization, LSI has better performance than other methods in both document collections. Also, LSI has produced the best performance in retrieving English documents. This outcome has shown that LSI has both favorable semantic and statistical quality and is different with the claim that LSI can not produce discriminative power for indexing.