
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 ...