10 Tips to Improve your Text Classification Algorithm Accuracy and Performance
1.Eliminate Low Quality Features (Words)
2.Recursively Grow your Stopword List
3.Look Beyond Unigram into Bigrams and Trigrams
4.Diversify your Training Corpus
5.Tweak Precision and Recall
6.Eliminate Low Quality Predictions (Learn to Say “I Dont Know”)
7.Canonicalize Words through Lemma Reduction
8.Eliminate Numerals, Punctuation and Corpus Specific Text
9.Try a Different Classification Algorithm
10.Targeted Manual Injection and Curation of Corpus Data
link:http://thinknook.com/10-ways-to-improve-your-classification-algorithm-performance-2013-01-21/