Feature matrix for email classification:












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This is in continuation of my earlier post.



In my previous model, I used just two features which couldn't fare well and gave 71% prediction (accuracy) score. Now, I'm trying to consider another important field "subject" from the data set. I'm planning to use NLTK package along with Tf-Idf.



I generated the below using NLTK (FreqDist) on the subject field -
enter image description here
Here is my idea:
I'll tokenize the subject field, apply stopwords, then Tf-Idf and get the top N most frequent words and use them as features. The Tf-Idf score will be my values. In total, I'll have (N+2) features.



But, one downside is - the feature matrix will be huge (say 200+ features) and sparse. Is that a concern? Does this design make sense?



Your thoughts please.










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    $begingroup$


    This is in continuation of my earlier post.



    In my previous model, I used just two features which couldn't fare well and gave 71% prediction (accuracy) score. Now, I'm trying to consider another important field "subject" from the data set. I'm planning to use NLTK package along with Tf-Idf.



    I generated the below using NLTK (FreqDist) on the subject field -
    enter image description here
    Here is my idea:
    I'll tokenize the subject field, apply stopwords, then Tf-Idf and get the top N most frequent words and use them as features. The Tf-Idf score will be my values. In total, I'll have (N+2) features.



    But, one downside is - the feature matrix will be huge (say 200+ features) and sparse. Is that a concern? Does this design make sense?



    Your thoughts please.










    share|improve this question











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      $begingroup$


      This is in continuation of my earlier post.



      In my previous model, I used just two features which couldn't fare well and gave 71% prediction (accuracy) score. Now, I'm trying to consider another important field "subject" from the data set. I'm planning to use NLTK package along with Tf-Idf.



      I generated the below using NLTK (FreqDist) on the subject field -
      enter image description here
      Here is my idea:
      I'll tokenize the subject field, apply stopwords, then Tf-Idf and get the top N most frequent words and use them as features. The Tf-Idf score will be my values. In total, I'll have (N+2) features.



      But, one downside is - the feature matrix will be huge (say 200+ features) and sparse. Is that a concern? Does this design make sense?



      Your thoughts please.










      share|improve this question











      $endgroup$




      This is in continuation of my earlier post.



      In my previous model, I used just two features which couldn't fare well and gave 71% prediction (accuracy) score. Now, I'm trying to consider another important field "subject" from the data set. I'm planning to use NLTK package along with Tf-Idf.



      I generated the below using NLTK (FreqDist) on the subject field -
      enter image description here
      Here is my idea:
      I'll tokenize the subject field, apply stopwords, then Tf-Idf and get the top N most frequent words and use them as features. The Tf-Idf score will be my values. In total, I'll have (N+2) features.



      But, one downside is - the feature matrix will be huge (say 200+ features) and sparse. Is that a concern? Does this design make sense?



      Your thoughts please.







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