The availability of vast amount of Arabic free-texts in electronic format basically in commercial enterprises, government organizations or World Wide Web, arise different difficulties to manage the
knowledge residing in these repertoires of texts which necessitate the finding of intelligent tools to discover hidden knowledge and relations between texts existing in these repertoires. Text mining may help in these situations basically text classification and categorization. Text classification aims to automatically assign the text to predefined category based on linguistic features. Such a process have different useful applications including but not restricted to E-Mail spam detection, web pages content filtering, and automatic message routing. To the best of our knowledge, the efforts to investigate Arabic text classification and categorization are rare. This project will contribute in better understanding and elaborating Arabic text classification techniques. ... [more]
