A comprehensive study of text classification algorithms

Huge amount of data in today's world are stored in the form of electronic documents. Text mining is the process of extracting the information out of those textual documents. Text classification is the process of classifying text documents into fixed number of predefined classes. The application of text classification includes spam filtering, email routing, sentiment analysis, language identification etc. This paper discusses a detailed survey on the text classification process and various algorithms used in this field.