Automated Genre Classification of Books Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

In today's world due to ever increasing demand to make computers perform tasks of humans, machine learning is used. It is a tedious task to manually read the entire book and classify it based on its genre. Novice writers find it troublesome to figure out the genre of their book, which can affect its reach to the right audience. The proposed method gains knowledge from a large number of words from the books and transforms them into a feature matrix. During transformation, the size of the initial matrix is reduced using Wordnet and Principle Component Analysis. Then, AdaBoost classifier is applied to predict the genres of the books.