From machine learning to knowledge discovery: Survey of preprocessing and postprocessing

Intelligent Data Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 363-374

  Bruha, Ivan ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

attribute selection; data mining; feature transformation; knowledge discovery in databases (KDD); knowledge integration; machine learning; postprocessing; preprocessing

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DATA MINING; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MACHINE COMPONENTS; METADATA;

ATTRIBUTE SELECTION; FEATURE TRANSFORMATIONS; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASE; KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION; POSTPROCESSING; PREPROCESSING;

MACHINE LEARNING;

EID: 36749073857     PISSN: 1088467X     EISSN: 15714128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ida-2000-43-413     Document Type: Article

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