This repository was used in the Text Classification using Machine Learning session at Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital methods #LancsSS16 and #LancsSS17 at Lancaster University, UK – 12th to 15th July 2016 and 27th - 30th June 2017. http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool/nlp.php

Insttructor: Dr. Mahmoud El-Haj http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/elhaj

Slides are avialable online here:

Course: https://lancaster.box.com/s/fi15evvbtcs4ab0tx5zo8nxmy2yylztx

Workspace Setup: https://lancaster.box.com/s/j78l0b4197il98oze2gfqlidlsvg7jlt

The code trains classifiers for chairman's statements, governance & remuneration sections from 1,000 annual financial reports. Using WEKA Java the code does the following:

• Creates an ARFF File
• Train a model using different Algorithms
• Extract n-gram features using stringToWordsVector
• Reduce features
• Classify unseen documents using the created models.