Effectiveness of rule-based classifiers in Sinhala text categorization

Abstract

In the recent past, the growth of Sinhala text usage on the web has been increasing rapidly due to the advancement in the field of information and communication technologies in Sri Lanka. With this change in society, automatic text categorization becomes important for many operations in computing. Therefore, the aim of this research is to assess commonly used rule based text classification algorithms against the Sinhala dataset. This study is limited to rule based classifiers as they are humanly interpretable by nature, which gives an added advantage to text classification. This paper presents a. The comparison of experiment results of rule based classifiers b. SinNG5 corpus and Sinhala stop word list named as SinSWL. The corpus and stop word list are freely available for academic researches.