Key Laboratory of Symbol Computation and Knowledge Engineering of the Ministry of Education College of Computer Science and Technology Jilin University Changchun 130012 China;
College of Mathematics and Computer Science National University of Inner Mongolia Tongliao 028043 China;
Department of Information and Communication Technology University of Tranto Via Sommarive 14 38050-Povo (TN) Italy;
text categorization; mutual information; feature selection; characteristic weights; classifier.;