An Ant Colony Optimization Based Feature Selection for Web Page Classification

Table 5

The best, worst, and average 𝐹-measure values of classification using ACO selected 𝑛 features from ⟨title⟩ tags for all classes.

No. of features selected (𝑛)	𝐹-measure	Dataset
		Course	Student	Project	Faculty	Conference
10	Best	0.983	0.92	0.891	0.947	0.736
	Avg.	0.966	0.903	0.883	0.901	0.712
	Worst	0.948	0.885	0.875	0.854	0.687
100	Best	0.983	0.92	0.883	0.939	0.739
	Avg.	0.976	0.916	0.879	0.930	0.713
	Worst	0.980	0.911	0.869	0.921	0.687
500	Best	—	0.92	0.883	0.94	0.741
	Avg.	—	0.915	0.879	0.933	0.678
	Worst	—	0.91	0.869	0.922	0.710