Current prospects on ordinal and monotonic classification

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Year:
2016
Type of Publication:
Article
Keywords:
Machine learning, Ordinal classification, Ordinal regression, Monotonic classification, Evaluation measures
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Journal:
Progress in Artificial Intelligence
Volume:
5
Number:
3
Pages:
171-179
Month:
August
ISSN:
2192-6352
Abstract:
Ordinal classification covers those classification tasks where the different labels show an ordering relation, which is related to the nature of the target variable. In addition, if a set of monotonicity constraints between independent and dependent variables has to be satisfied, then the problem is known as monotonic classification. Both issues are of great practical importance in machine learning. Ordinal classification has been widely studied in specialized literature, but monotonic classification has received relatively low attention. In this paper, we define and relate both tasks in a common framework, providing proper descriptions, characteristics, and a categorization of existing approaches in the state-of-the-art. Moreover, research challenges and open issues are discussed, with focus on frequent experimental behaviours and pitfalls, commonly used evaluation measures and the encouragement in devoting substantial research efforts in specific learning paradigms.
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