Classification algorithms have been extensively studied in many of the major scientific investigations in recent decades. Many of these algorithms are designed for supervised learning, which requires labeled instances to achieve effective learning models. However, in many of the real human processes, data labeling is expensive and time-consuming. Because of this, alternative learning paradigms have been proposed to reduce the cost of the labeling process without a significant loss of model performance. This paper presents the Semi-Supervised Learning C4.5 algorithm (SSL-C4.5) designed to work in scenarios where only a small part of the data is labeled. SSL-C4.5 was implemented over the J48 implementation of the C4.5 algorithm available at the WEKA platform. The J48 was modified incorporating a metric for semi-supervised learning. This metric aims at inducing decision tree models able to analyze and extract information from the entire training dataset, including instances of unlabeled data in scenarios where they are the majority. The assessment performed using eight different benchmark datasets showed that the new proposal has achieved promising results compared to the supervised version of C4.5.
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Ortiz-Díaz, A. A., Bayer, F. R., & Baldo, F. (2020). SSL-C4.5: Implementation of a Classification Algorithm for Semi-supervised Learning Based on C4.5. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 12320 LNAI, pp. 513–525). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61380-8_35
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