Chinese text categorization differs from English text categorization due to its much larger term set (of words or character n-grams),which results in very slow training and working of modern high-performance classifiers.This study assumes that this high-dimensionality problem is related to the redundancy in the term set,which cannot be solved by traditional term selection methods.A greedy algorithm framework named "non-independent term selection" is presented,which reduces the redundancy according to string-level correlations.Several preliminary implementations of this idea are demonstrated.Experiment results show that a good tradeoff can be reached between the performance and the size of the term set.