Machine learning: a review of classification and combining techniques

  • Authors:
  • S. B. Kotsiantis;I. D. Zaharakis;P. E. Pintelas

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Peloponnese, Greece and Educational Software Development Laboratory, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Patr ...;Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece;Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Peloponnese, Greece and Educational Software Development Laboratory, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Patr ...

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence Review
  • Year:
  • 2006

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Supervised classification is one of the tasks most frequently carried out by so-called Intelligent Systems. Thus, a large number of techniques have been developed based on Artificial Intelligence (Logic-based techniques, Perceptron-based techniques) and Statistics (Bayesian Networks, Instance-based techniques). The goal of supervised learning is to build a concise model of the distribution of class labels in terms of predictor features. The resulting classifier is then used to assign class labels to the testing instances where the values of the predictor features are known, but the value of the class label is unknown. This paper describes various classification algorithms and the recent attempt for improving classification accuracy--ensembles of classifiers.