A high prediction accuracy of the students’ performance is more helpful to identify the low performance students at the beginning of the learning process. Data mining is used to attain this objective. Data mining techniques are used to discover models or patterns of data, and it is much helpful in the decision-making. Boosting technique is the most popular techniques for constructing ensembles ...

Model trees are decision trees with linear regression functions at the leaves. Although originally proposed for regression, they have also been applied successfully in classification problems. This paper studies their performance for imbalanced problems. These trees give better results that standard decision trees (J48, based on C4.5) and decision trees specific for imbalanced data (CCPDT: Clas...

The alternating decision tree (ADTree) is a successful classification technique that combines decision trees with the predictive accuracy of boosting into a set of interpretable classification rules. The original formulation of the tree induction algorithm restricted attention to binary classification problems. This paper empirically evaluates several wrapper methods for extending the algorithm...

We propose a boosting method, DirectBoost, a greedy coordinate descent algorithm that builds an ensemble classifier of weak classifiers through directly minimizing empirical classification error over labeled training examples; once the training classification error is reduced to a local coordinatewise minimum, DirectBoost runs a greedy coordinate ascent algorithm that continuously adds weak cla...

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. In this open model, some people edits with the intent of harming the integrity of Wikipedia. This is known as vandalism. We extend the framework presented in (Potthast, Stein, and Gerling, 2008) for Wikipedia vandalism detection. In this approach, several vandalism indicating features are extracted from edits in a vandalism corpus and ar...

When feature selection in mass spectrometry is based on single m/z values, problems arise from the fact that variability is not only in vertical but also in horizontal direction, i.e. also slightly differing m/z values may correspond to the same feature. Hence, we propose to use the full spectra as input to a classifier, but to select small groups -- or blocks -- of adjacent m/z values, instead...

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. In this open model, some people edits with the intent of harming the integrity of Wikipedia. This is known as vandalism. We extend the framework presented in (Potthast, Stein, and Gerling, 2008) for Wikipedia vandalism detection. In this approach, several vandalism indicating features are extracted from edits in a vandalism corpus and ar...

Automated text classification has been considered as a vital method to manage and process a vast amount of documents in digital forms that are widespread and continuously increasing. In general, text classification plays an important role in information extraction and summarization, text retrieval, and question-answering. The Multinomial Bayesian Classifier has traditionally been a focus of res...

Recent interpretations of the Adaboost algorithm view it as performing a gradient descent on a potential function. Simply changing the potential function allows one to create new algorithms related to AdaBoost. However, these new algorithms are generally not known to have the formal boosting property. This paper examines the question of which potential functions lead to new algorithms that are ...

While a fair amount of work has been done on automatically detecting emotion in human speech, there has been little research on sarcasm detection. Although sarcastic speech acts are inherently subjective, humans have relatively clear intuitions as to what constitutes sarcastic speech. In this paper, we present a system for automatic sarcasm detection. Using a new acted speech corpus that is ann...