Discrimination-Based criteria for the evaluation of classifiers

Authors:
Thanh Ha Dang;Christophe Marsala;Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier;Alain Boucher
Affiliations:
DAPA, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris6, CNRS UMR 7606, Paris, France;DAPA, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris6, CNRS UMR 7606, Paris, France;DAPA, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris6, CNRS UMR 7606, Paris, France;Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Informatique, Equipe MSI, Hanoi, Vietnam
Venue:
FQAS'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Evaluating the performance of classifiers is a difficult task in machine learning. Many criteria have been proposed and used in such a process. Each criterion measures some facets of classifiers. However, none is good enough for all cases. In this communication, we justify the use of discrimination measures for evaluating classifiers. The justification is mainly based on a hierarchical model for discrimination measures, which was introduced and used in the induction of decision trees.