Learning to Use a Learned Model: A Two-Stage Approach to Classification (2006)

by Luiza Antonie. Osmar R. Zaiane. Robert Holte.

The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06)

Association rule-based classiers have recently emerged as competitive classification systems. However, there are still defiencies that hinder their performance. One deficiency is the use of rules in the classification stage. Current systems assign classes to new objects based on the best rule applied or on some predefined scoring of multiple rules. In this paper we propose a new technique where the system automatically learns how to use the rules. We achieve this by developing a two-stage classification model. First, we use association rule mining to discover classification rules. Second, we employ another learning algorithm to learn how to use these rules in the prediction process. Our two-stage approach outperforms C4.5 and RIPPER on the UCI datasets in our study, and outperforms other rulelearning methods on more than half the datasets. The versatility of our method is also demonstrated by applying it to text classification, where it equals the performance of the best known systems for this task, SVMs. [via]

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