An Ant Colony Optimization Based Feature Selection for Web Page Classification

Table 7

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

No. of features selected (𝑛)	𝐹-measure	Dataset
		Course	Student	Project	Faculty	Conference
10	Best	0.963	0.94	0.954	0.965	0.921
	Avg.	0.957	0.938	0.95	0.952	0.904
	Worst	0.954	0.937	0.941	0.946	0.877
100	Best	0.902	0.82	0.923	0.928	0.94
	Avg.	0.881	0.808	0.887	0.914	0.932
	Worst	0.865	0.79	0.845	0.869	0.911
500	Best	0.9	0.35	0.91	0.356	0.936
	Avg.	0.87	0.345	0.896	0.355	0.932
	Worst	0.885	0.345	0.884	0.354	0.929