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Hence, in this work, two FS algorithms, i.e., Binary CHS (BCHS) and Improved BCHS (IBCHS) based on original CHS were applied for FS in the SA field. In IBCHS, the opposition-based learning technique is applied in the initialization and displacement phases to enhance the search space exploration ability of the IBCHS. The two proposed approaches were evaluated using six well-known corpora in the SA area (Semeval-2016, Semeval-2017, Sanders, Stanford, PMD, and MRD). The obtained result showed that IBCHS outperformed BCHS regarding search capability and convergence speed. The comparison results of IBCHS to several recent state-of-the-art approaches show that IBCHS surpassed other approaches in almost all used corpora. 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