README.md

AG-News-Classification-using-Machine-Learning

News Classification Dataset Data Source:https://www.kaggle.com/amananandrai/ag-news-classification-dataset/notebooks

Objective

News Classification dataset consist of News articles of class "world", "sports", "business", and "Science"

Given a Title and description we have to determine wheatear it belongs to which news article category .

Type of Machine learning problem:

We have to predict the news article on given information so it is multiclass Classification problem

Basic Overview

Data.shape : Train.csv + Test.csv = 120000 + 7600 =127600 rows.

Data.columns : Class index , Title , Description

Data.info( ) : Independent : Title , Description --- > Object , Dependent : Class Label -- > Int64

Type of Machine Learning problem

Performance metric

As this is Multiclass Classification problem so we are going to use:

1: Multiclass Confusion matrix

2: Precision , Recall ,F1-Score

3: Accuracy score , Error score

Steps for doing News Classification problem:

Part 1

1: Load dataset ---- > .csv format

2: Perform Exploratory Data Analysis:

  a] Check if Dataset has balanced distributions for each News label 
      b] Check for null values 
      c] Plot Distribution of data points among News Labels .
      d] Use word clouds to observe max repeated words in each class.

Part 2 Text Preprocessing

Pre-processing :

1: Expand Contradictions ---> (.replace (‘ % ‘ , percent), .replace ( ‘ $ ‘ , dollar’ )

2: Remove Html tags , links ,url.

3 : Remove Punctuations .

4: Remove Stop words ---->( is , the , are …..)

5: Perform Stemming operations to convert more than one words with different spelling with similar meaning into one meaningful word

Part 3 Train Test Validation Split

Divide Dataset into 3 parts Dtrain , Dtest, Dval into 60 , 20 , 20 ratio

Dtrain : max amount of data is used to training this data for model to learn from it

Dval : after training Dtrain our model we have to validate our data to see that our model have learned in proper manner or not.

Dtest : Unseen data

Part 4 Apply NLP model

For creating a model :

1: Tf-ifd

2: Uni-gram, bi-gram, n-gram

3: Selecting max_features out of the model

TF-IDF

Here i have created a small blog explaining TF-IDF intiution

https://niharjamdar.medium.com/tf-idf-term-frequency-and-inverse-document-frequency-56a0289d2fb6

Part 5 Apply ML models

After Applying NLP models for creating words into vectors .

We will convert those words into features by selecting max_features , max_df as hyper parameter.

More the features more machine will learn , and after that use machine learning algorithm:

1 : Logistic regression

2: Decision Tree

3: Stochastic Gradient descent

Comparison of Accuracies of Different Models