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Cooperative classification
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Decision trees have been successfully used for the task of classification. However, state-of the-art algorithms do not incorporate the user in the tree construction process. Through the involvement of the user in the process of classification, he/she can provide domain knowledge to focus the search of the algorithm and gain a deeper understanding of the resulting decision tree. In a cooperative approach, both the user and the computer contribute what they do best: the user specifies the task, focuses the search using his/her domain knowledge, and evaluates the (intermediate) results of the algorithm. The computer, on the other hand, automatically creates patterns satisfying the specified user constraints. The cooperative approach is based on a novel visualization technique for multidimensional data representing their impurity with respect to their class labels.
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The idea of visual classification has been built upon...
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Ankerst, M. (2018). Visual Classification. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1123
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