M. Rezaei; H. Nezamabadi-pour
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The present study aims to overcome some defects of the K-nearest neighbor (K-NN) rule. Two important data preprocessing methods to elevate the K-NN rule are prototype selection (PS) and prototype generation (PG) techniques. Often the advantage of these techniques is investigated separately. In this paper, ...
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The present study aims to overcome some defects of the K-nearest neighbor (K-NN) rule. Two important data preprocessing methods to elevate the K-NN rule are prototype selection (PS) and prototype generation (PG) techniques. Often the advantage of these techniques is investigated separately. In this paper, using the gravitational search algorithm (GSA), two hybrid schemes have been proposed in which PG and PS problems have been considered together. To evaluate the classification performance of these hybrid models, we have performed a comparative experimental study including a comparison between our proposals and some approaches previously studied in the literature using several benchmark datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that our hybrid approaches outperform most of the competitive methods.
Sh. Golzari; F. Sanei; M.R. Saybani; A. Harifi; M. Basir
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A Question Answering System (QAS) is a special form of information retrieval which consists of three parts: question processing, information retrieval, and answer selection. Determining the type of question is the most important part of QAS as it affects other following parts. This study uses effective ...
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A Question Answering System (QAS) is a special form of information retrieval which consists of three parts: question processing, information retrieval, and answer selection. Determining the type of question is the most important part of QAS as it affects other following parts. This study uses effective features and ensemble classification to improve the QAS performance by increasing the accuracy of question type identification. We use the gravitational search algorithm to select the features and perform ensemble classification. The proposed system is extensively tested on different datasets using four types of experiments: (1) neither feature selection nor ensemble classification, (2) feature selection without ensemble classification, (3) ensemble classification without feature selection, and (4) feature selection with ensemble classification. These four kinds of experiments are carried out under the differential evolution algorithm and gravitational search algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms compared to state-of-the-art methods in previous researches.
