Anotation:
The usability of the Oscillating Search algorithm for feature/word selection (FS) in text categorization is explored. The multiclass Bhattacharyya distance for multinomial model as the global feature subset selection criterion for reducing the dimensionality of the bag of words vector document representation is used.This criterion takes into consideration inter-feature relationships.The experiments illustrate that using a non-trivial FS algorithm brings substantial improvement in classification accuracy.