Multi-label classification and extracting predicted class hierarchies

This paper investigates hierarchy extraction from results of multi-label classification (MC). MC deals with instances labeled by multiple classes rather than just one, and the classes are often hierarchically organized. Usually multi-label classifiers rely on a predefined class hierarchy. A much less investigated approach is to suppose that the hierarchy is unknown and to infer it automatically. In this setting, the proposed system classifies multi-label data and extracts a class hierarchy from multi-label predictions. It is based on a combination of a novel multi-label extension of the fuzzy Adaptive Resonance Associative Map (ARAM) neural network with an association rule learner. & 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.