Background of Study

The News media industry plays a vital role in disseminating information to the public, covering
various topics such as sports, education, entertainment, politics, health, and more [1]. With the
proliferation of digital media, the amount of data generated by this industry has increased
exponentially. However, this growth in data has also created challenges in effectively managing
and organizing the data. In particular, manual classification of news articles and reports into
different categories can be time-consuming, error-prone, and subjective.

To address these challenges, researchers have proposed the development of intelligent document
classification systems that can automatically classify news articles and reports into predefined
categories based on their content. Such systems can help News media organizations to efficiently
manage their data, quickly locate relevant information, and provide targeted content to their
audience [2]. Moreover, intelligent document classification systems can enable personalized
news delivery by recommending articles based on the reader's interests and preferences.

Several machine learning algorithms, such as Naive Bayes [1], Support Vector Machines (SVM)
[3], Decision Trees [4], and Neural Networks [5], have been used to develop intelligent
document classification systems. These algorithms work by learning patterns and relationships in
the data to classify new documents into their respective categories. In recent years, deep learning
techniques, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Recurrent Neural Networks
(RNN) [5], have shown promising results in document classification tasks, achieving state-of-
the-art performance.

However, the development of an effective intelligent document classification system for the
News media industry requires addressing several challenges, such as handling noisy and
unstructured data, dealing with imbalanced class distributions, and ensuring the system's
interpretability and transparency [2]. Therefore, this study aims to develop an intelligent
document classification system for the News media industry using deep learning techniques
while addressing these challenges. The proposed system's performance will be evaluated on a
real-world dataset of news articles, and its effectiveness in classifying articles into predefined
categories will be analyzed.

Problem statement
Despite the benefits of an intelligent document classification system for the News media
industry, there are challenges associated with accurately categorizing articles across various
topics such as sport, education, entertainment, politics, health, etc. Existing systems often rely on
hand-crafted rules and heuristics which can be time-consuming and difficult to maintain (Bashir
et al., 2017). In addition, these systems may struggle to handle the large and diverse range of
news articles produced by media outlets on a daily basis. Therefore, there is a need for a more
efficient and accurate approach to classify news articles across various categories.
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