A Text Classification Application: Poet Detection from Poetry
This work addresses poet detection from poetry, an incremental domain-specific application in text classification.
The study tackled the problem of classifying poetry by poet using text categorization techniques, achieving over 70% classification success with the sequential minimal optimization method.
With the widespread use of the internet, the size of the text data increases day by day. Poems can be given as an example of the growing text. In this study, we aim to classify poetry according to poet. Firstly, data set consisting of three different poetry of poets written in English have been constructed. Then, text categorization techniques are implemented on it. Chi-Square technique are used for feature selection. In addition, five different classification algorithms are tried. These algorithms are Sequential minimal optimization, Naive Bayes, C4.5 decision tree, Random Forest and k-nearest neighbors. Although each classifier showed very different results, over the 70% classification success rate was taken by sequential minimal optimization technique.