Computer Science – Artificial Intelligence
Scientific paper
2012-01-23
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
14 pages, 1 figure, under review
Scientific paper
Multilabel classification is a relatively recent subfield of machine learning. Unlike to the classical approach, where patterns are labeled with only one category, in multilabel classification, an arbitrary number of categories is chosen to label a pattern. Due to the problem complexity (the solution is one among an exponential number of alternatives), a very common solution (the binary method) is frequently used, learning a binary classifier for every category, and combining them all afterwards. The assumption taken in this solution is not realistic, and in this work we give examples where the decisions for all the labels are not taken independently, and thus, a supervised approach should learn those existing relationships among categories to make a better classification. Therefore, we show here a generic methodology that can improve the results obtained by a set of independent probabilistic binary classifiers, by using a combination procedure with a classifier trained on the co-occurrences of the labels. We show an exhaustive experimentation in three different standard corpora of labeled documents (Reuters-21578, Ohsumed-23 and RCV1), which present noticeable improvements in all of them, when using our methodology, in three probabilistic base classifiers.
de Campos Luis M.
Romero Alfonso E.
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