Mining association rules for label ranking

  • Authors:
  • Cláudio Rebelo De Sá;Carlos Soares;Alípio Mário Jorge;Paulo Azevedo;Joaquim Costa

  • Affiliations:
  • LIAAD-INESC Porto L.A., Porto, Portugal;LIAAD-INESC Porto L.A., Porto, Portugal and Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto;LIAAD-INESC Porto L.A., Porto, Portugal and DCC, Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade do Porto;CCTC, Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho;DM, Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade do Porto

  • Venue:
  • PAKDD'11 Proceedings of the 15th Pacific-Asia conference on Advances in knowledge discovery and data mining - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Recently, a number of learning algorithms have been adapted for label ranking, including instance-based and tree-based methods. In this paper, we propose an adaptation of association rules for label ranking. The adaptation, which is illustrated in this work with APRIORI Algorithm, essentially consists of using variations of the support and confidence measures based on ranking similarity functions that are suitable for label ranking. We also adapt the method to make a prediction from the possibly conflicting consequents of the rules that apply to an example. Despite having made our adaptation from a very simple variant of association rules for classification, the results clearly show that the method is making valid predictions. Additionally, they show that it competes well with state-of-the-art label ranking algorithms.