Category Label

A category label is an label that references a named concept cluster.

• AKA: Class Value
• Context:
  • It can (typically) be a member of a Categorical Set.
  • It can Represents a Concept Class.
  • It can be associated with:
    • an Categorical Variable
    • an Categorical Data Attribute.
    • an Categorical-Output Function,
    • a Class Member Identifier/Class Identifier.
  • It can be the Task Output of a Classification Task.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • a Boolean Value (such as TRUE/T) in a truth set.
  • a Red in a {Color Set}
  • a Protein Label in a {Biomolecule Type}
  • a News Article Type in a {Text Document Category}.
  • a Part-of-Speech Tag.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Ordinal Value/Ranking Label, such as large.
  • a Numeric Value/Numerical Label, such as Five, Pi?
• See: Category Set Member, Labeled Training Record, Ranking, Clustering.

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References

2000

• (Witten & Frank, 2000) ⇒ Ian H. Witten, and Eibe Frank. (2000). “Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java implementations." Morgan Kaufmann.

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