Accession Number:
ADA465314
Title:
Identifying Predictive Structures in Relational Data Using Multiple Instance Learning
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Corporate Author:
MASSACHUSETTS UNIV AMHERST DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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Report Date:
2003-01-01
Pagination or Media Count:
9.0
Abstract:
This paper introduces an approach for identifying predictive structures in relational data using the multiple-instance framework. By a predictive structure, we mean a structure that can explain a given labeling of the data and can predict labels of unseen data. Multiple-instance learning has previously only been applied to flat, or propositional, data and we present a modification to the framework that allows multiple-instance techniques to be used on relational data. We present experimental results using a relational modification of the diverse density method Maron, 1998 Maron Lozano-P erez, 1998 and of a method based on the chi-squared statistic McGovern Jensen, 2003. We demonstrate that multiple instance learning can be used to identify predictive structures on both a small illustrative data set and the Internet Movie Database. We compare the classification results to a kappa-nearest neighbor approach.
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- Information Science