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12th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'00)
Transforming supervised classifiers for feature extraction
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
November 13-November 15
ISBN: 0-7695-0909-6
B. Bursteinas, South Bank Univ., London, UK
J.A. Long, South Bank Univ., London, UK
Abstract: Supervised feature extraction is used in data classification and (unlike unsupervised feature extraction) it uses class labels to evaluate the quality of the extracted features. It can be computationally inefficient to perform exhaustive searches to find optimal subsets of features. This article proposes a supervised linear feature extraction algorithm based on the use of multivariate decision trees. The main motivation in proposing this new approach to feature extraction is to reduce the computation time required to induce new classifiers which are required to evaluate every new subset of features. The new feature extraction algorithm proposed uses an approach that is similar to the wrapper model method used in feature selection. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, several tests with real-world data have been performed. The fundamental importance of this new feature extraction method is found in its ability to significantly reduce the computational time required to extract features from large databases.
Index Terms:
feature extraction; learning (artificial intelligence); pattern classification; decision trees; software performance evaluation; very large databases; data mining; supervised classifiers; supervised linear feature extraction algorithm; data classification; class labels; extracted feature quality evaluation; computational efficiency; multivariate decision trees; computation time; classifier induction; feature subset evaluation; wrapper model method; feature selection; algorithm performance evaluation; large databases
Citation:
B. Bursteinas, J.A. Long, "Transforming supervised classifiers for feature extraction," ictai, pp.0274, 12th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'00), 2000
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