Document classification efficiency of phrase-based techniques

Due to the exponential growth of available text documents in digital form, it is of great importance to develop techniques for automatic document classification based on the textual contents. Earlier document classification techniques have used keyword-based features and related statistics to achieve good results when applied to certain datasets. More recently, some of these techniques have been extended to include phrase-based and concept-based features to achieve better results. Since the characteristics of data sets used by each of these research groups are remarkably different, it is not possible to compare the efficiency of these methods. In this paper, we present a study that uses the same data set to compare efficiency of a phrase-based technique with key-word based techniques. Results prove conclusively that use of phrase-based features is very effective in document classification.