An Ant Colony Optimization Based Feature Selection for Web Page Classification

Table 8

The best, worst, and average 𝐹-measure values of classification using ACO selected 𝑛 features from tagged terms for all classes when IBk classifier is used in the test phase.

No. of features selected (𝑛)	𝐹-measure	Dataset
		Course	Student	Project	Faculty	Conference
10	Best	0.948	0.929	0.937	0.948	0.906
	Avg	0.943	0.914	0.92	0.936	0.888
	Worst	0.929	0.909	0.896	0.915	0.842
100	Best	0.95	0.887	0.918	0.965	0.866
	Avg	0.94	0.872	0.906	0.951	0.861
	Worst	0.932	0.858	0.896	0.941	0.855
500	Best	0.951	0.902	0.918	0.94	0.844
	Avg	0.944	0.899	0.911	0.938	0.84
	Worst	0.937	0.898	0.908	0.936	0.837