Title
Stacking Methods for Hierarchical Classification
Abstract
Hierarchical Classification (HC) consists of classification problems whose classes are structured in a hierarchical fashion. Many problems are addressed by HC, in special a decent amount of works dealt with bioinformatics related problems such as Protein Function Prediction (PFP) and Transposable Elements (TEs) classification. Both of them are still a challenging task for HC due to the noisy and imbalanced nature of the datasets. As a countermeasure, Stacking is an ensemble method capable of generalizing knowledge from many classifiers. In this work, we propose three Stacking methods for HC and evaluate its performance on PFP and TEs datasets. Our results show that, when compared to regular Stacking and state-of-art methods from the literature, our methods are able to obtain superior or competitive performances.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ICMLA.2017.0-145
2017 16th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hierarchical Classification,Bioinformatics,Stacking
Decision tree,Noise measurement,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Generalization,Artificial intelligence,Protein function prediction,Machine learning,Stacking
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-1419-8
1
0.36
References 
Authors
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Felipe Kenji Nakano131.09
Saulo Martiello Mastelini243.82
Sylvio Barbon34610.97
Ricardo Cerri413216.88