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A hybrid algorithm for Bayesian network structure learning with application to multi-label learning
We present a novel hybrid algorithm for Bayesian network structure learning,
called H2PC. It first reconstructs the skeleton of a Bayesian network and then
performs a Bayesian-scoring greedy hill-climbing search to orient the edges.
The algorithm is based on divide-and-conquer constraint-based subroutines to
learn the local structure around a target variable. We conduct two series of
experimental comparisons of H2PC against Max-Min Hill-Climbing (MMHC), which is
currently the most powerful state-of-the-art algorithm for Bayesian network
structure learning. First, we use eight well-known Bayesian network benchmarks
with various data sizes to assess the quality of the learned structure returned
by the algorithms. Our extensive experiments show that H2PC outperforms MMHC in
terms of goodness of fit to new data and quality of the network structure with
respect to the true dependence structure of the data. Second, we investigate
H2PC's ability to solve the multi-label learning problem. We provide
theoretical results to characterize and identify graphically the so-called
minimal label powersets that appear as irreducible factors in the joint
distribution under the faithfulness condition. The multi-label learning problem
is then decomposed into a series of multi-class classification problems, where
each multi-class variable encodes a label powerset. H2PC is shown to compare
favorably to MMHC in terms of global classification accuracy over ten
multi-label data sets covering different application domains. Overall, our
experiments support the conclusions that local structural learning with H2PC in
the form of local neighborhood induction is a theoretically well-motivated and
empirically effective learning framework that is well suited to multi-label
learning. The source code (in R) of H2PC as well as all data sets used for the
empirical tests are publicly available.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1101.5184 by other author
A naive Bayes strategy for classifying customer satisfaction: A study based on online reviews of hospitality services
This research assesses whether terms related to guest experience can be used to identify ways to enhance hospitality services. A study was conducted to empirically identify relevant features to classify customer satisfaction based on 47,172 reviews of 33 Las Vegas hotels registered with Yelp, a social networking site. The resulting model can help hotel managers understand guests' satisfaction. In particular, it can help managers process vast amounts of review data by using a supervised machine learning approach. The naive algorithm classifies reviews of hotels with high precision and recall and with a low computational cost. These results are more reliable and accurate than prior statistical results based on limited sample data and provide insights into how hotels can improve their services based on, for example, staff experience, professionalism, tangible and experiential factors, and gambling-based attractions.Junta de Andalucía SEJ49
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