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- ItemFeature selection for multi-label classification(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12) Contardo-Berning, Ivona E.; Steel, S. J.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Economics.ENGLISH ABSTRACT : The field of multi-label learning is a popular new research focus. In the multi-label setting, a data instance can be associated simultaneously with a set of labels instead of only a single label. This dissertation reviews the subject of multi-label classification, emphasising some of the notable developments in the field. The nature of multi-label datasets typically means that these datasets are complex and dimensionality reduction might aid in the analysis of these datasets. The notion of feature selection is therefore introduced and discussed briefly in this dissertation. A new procedure for multi-label feature selection is proposed. This new procedure, relevance pattern feature selection (RPFS), utilises the methodology of the graphical technique of Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) biplots to perform feature selection. An empirical evaluation of the proposed technique is performed using a benchmark multi-label dataset and synthetic multi-label datasets. For the benchmark dataset it is shown that the proposed procedure achieves results similar to the full model, while using significantly fewer features. The empirical evaluation of the procedure on the synthetic datasets shows that the results achieved by the reduced sets of features are better than those achieved with a full set of features for the majority of the methods. The proposed procedure is then compared to two established multi-label feature selection techniques using the synthetic datasets. The results again show that the proposed procedure is effective.