Applied Data Mining

CHAPTER 8

Multi-Label Classification

8.1 Introduction

With the advent of affordable digital facilities and the rapid development

of internet, a huge amount of data has been generated, and the volume is

still increasing explosively. In most cases, such data needs to be analysed

and thus potential knowledge hidden behind them could be extracted

and summarized. Classifi cation, also known as supervised learning, is a

fundamental technique for data analysis. In the framework of classifi cation,

each object is described as an instance, which is usually a feature vector

that characterizes the object from different aspects. Moreover, each instance

is associated ...