Improving Meta-learning for Algorithm Selection by Using Multi-label Classification: A Case of Study with Educational Data Sets
- DOI
- 10.1080/18756891.2015.1113748How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Meta-learning, Multi-label classification, Educational data mining, Students’ performance
- Abstract
Recommending classification algorithms is an open research problem the solution to which is of tremendous value for practitioners and non-experts data mining users such as educators. This paper proposes a new meta-learning framework for educational domains based on the use of multi-label learning for selecting the best classification algorithms in order to predict students’ performance. In short, the framework considers an offline phase where statistical tests are performed to find the subset of algorithms that achieves the best performance over the repository of educational data sets. The subset of algorithms along with the meta-features extracted from the training data are used to generate a multi-label data set. A multi-label classifier is then trained and, in an online phase, this model is used to recommend the most suitable classification algorithms to be applied to new unseen data sets. This new multi-label meta-learning approach has been applied to a repository of educational data sets generated from Moodle usage data. The results obtained show significant improvement compared with a previous nearest neighbor proposal, demonstrating the suitability of the new framework.
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- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - JOUR AU - Juan Luis Olmo AU - Cristóbal Romero AU - Eva Gibaja AU - Sebastián Ventura PY - 2015 DA - 2015/12/01 TI - Improving Meta-learning for Algorithm Selection by Using Multi-label Classification: A Case of Study with Educational Data Sets JO - International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems SP - 1144 EP - 1164 VL - 8 IS - 6 SN - 1875-6883 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/18756891.2015.1113748 DO - 10.1080/18756891.2015.1113748 ID - Olmo2015 ER -