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With the rapid growth of textual content on the Internet, automatic text categorization is a comparatively more effective solution in information organization and knowledge management. Feature selection, one of the basic phases in statistical-based text categorization, crucially depends on the term weighting methods In order to improve the performance of text categorization, this paper proposes four modified frequency-based term weighting schemes namely; mTF, mTFIDF, TFmIDF, and mTFmIDF. The proposed term weighting schemes take the amount of missing terms into account calculating the weight of existing terms. The proposed schemes show the highest performance for a SVM classifier with a micro-average F1 classification performance value of 97%. Moreover, benchmarking results on Reuters-21578, 20Newsgroups, and WebKB text-classification datasets, using different classifying algorithms such as …