Evaluating the Efficiency of Rule Techniques for File Classification

Text mining refers to the process of deriving high quality information from text. It is also known as knowledge discovery from text (KDT), deals with the machine supported analysis of text. It is used in various areas such as information retrieval, marketing, information extraction, natural language processing, document similarity, and so on. Document Similarity is one of the important techniques in text mining. In document similarity, the first and foremost step is to classify the files based on their category. In this research work, various classification rule techniques are used to classify the computer files based on their extensions. For example, the extension of computer files may be pdf, doc, ppt, xls, and so on. There are several algorithms for rule classifier such as decision table, JRip, Ridor, DTNB, NNge, PART, OneR and ZeroR. In this research work, three classification algorithms namely decision table, DTNB and OneR classifiers are used for performing classification of computer files based on their extension. The results produced by these algorithms are analyzed by using the performance factors classification accuracy and error rate. From the experimental results, DTNB proves to be more efficient than other two techniques.