The Effect of Preprocessing on Arabic Document Categorization

• Published in: Algorithms Vol. 9; no. 2; p. 27
• Main Authors: Ayedh, Abdullah, TAN, Guanzheng, Alwesabi, Khaled, Rajeh, Hamdi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 18.04.2016
• Subjects: Arabic language processing; classification techniques; document categorization; stemming techniques; text preprocessing

Preprocessing is one of the main components in a conventional document categorization (DC) framework. This paper aims to highlight the effect of preprocessing tasks on the efficiency of the Arabic DC system. In this study, three classification techniques are used, namely, naive Bayes (NB), k-nearest...