2000 ImprovingAnAssocRuleBasedClassifier

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Subject Headings: Association Rule, Classifier.

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Existing classification algorithms in machine learning mainly use heuristic search to find a subset of regularities in data for classification. In the past few years, extensive research was done in the database community on learning rules using exhaustive search under the name of association rule mining. Although the whole set of rules may not be used directly for accurate classification, effective classifiers have been built using the rules. This paper aims to improve such an exhaustive search based classification system CBA (Classification Based on Associations). The main strength of this system is that it is able to use the most accurate rules for classification. However, it also has weaknesses. This paper proposes two new techniques to deal with these weaknesses. This results in remarkably accurate classifiers. Experiments on a set of 34 benchmark datasets show that on average the new techniques reduce the error of CBA by 17% and is superior to CBA on 26 of the 34 datasets. They reduce the error of C4.5 by 19%, and improve performance on 29 datasets. Similar good results are also achieved against RIPPER, LB and a Naïve-Bayes classifier.,


 AuthorvolumeDate ValuetitletypejournaltitleUrldoinoteyear
2000 ImprovingAnAssocRuleBasedClassifierBing Liu
Yiming Ma
Ching Kian Wong
Improving an Association Rule Based Classifierhttp://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub/publications/pkdd2000.ps10.1007/3-540-45372-5