An Ant Colony Optimization Based Feature Selection for Web Page Classification

Table 6

The best, worst, and average 𝐹-measure values of classification using ACO selected 𝑛 features from bag of terms method for all classes.

No. of features selected (𝑛)	𝐹-measure	Dataset
		Course	Student	Project	Faculty	Conference
10	Best	0.926	0.896	0.95	0.862	0.933
	Avg.	0.880	0.780	0.944	0.836	0.926
	Worst	0.834	0.665	0.947	0.811	0.92
100	Best	0.895	0.840	0.934	0.928	0.948
	Avg.	0.873	0.821	0.903	0.918	0.940
	Worst	0.851	0.802	0.872	0.908	0.932
500	Best	0.960	0.973	0.981	0.921	0.952
	Avg.	0.955	0.969	0.964	0.918	0.949
	Worst	0.950	0.966	0.947	0.915	0.946