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Text Categorization for E-Government Applications: The Case of City Mayor¡¦s Mailbox

The central government and most of local governments in Taiwan have adopted the e-mail services to provide citizens for requesting services or expressing their opinions through Internet. Traditionally, these requests/opinions need to be manually classified into appropriate departments for service rendering. However, due to the ever-increasing number of requests/opinions received, the manual classification approach is time consuming and becomes impractical. Therefore, in this study, we attempt to apply text categorization techniques for constructing automatically a classification mechanism in order to establish an efficient e-government service portal.
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate effectiveness of different text categorization methods in supporting automatic classification of service requests/opinions emails sent to Mayor¡¦s mailbox. Specifically, in each phase of text categorization learning, we adopt and evaluate two methods commonly employed in prior research. In the feature selection phase, both the maximal x2¡@statistic method and the weighted average x2¡@statistic method of x2¡@statistic are evaluated. We consider the Binary and TFxIDF representation schemes in the document representation phase. Finally, we adopt the decision tree induction technique and the support vector machines (SVM) technique for inducing a text categorization model for our target e-government application. Our empirical evaluation results show that the text categorization method that employs the maximal x2 statistic method for feature selection, the Binary representation scheme, and the support vector machines as the underlying induction algorithm can reach an accuracy rate of 77.28% and an recall and precision rates of more than 77%. Such satisfactory classification effectiveness suggests that the text categorization approach can be employed to establish an effective and intelligent e-government service portal.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0829106-130820
Date29 August 2006
CreatorsKuo, Chiung-Jung
ContributorsYi-Cheng Ku, Han-Wei Hsiao, Tsang-Hsiang Cheng, Chih-Ping Wei
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0829106-130820
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