Reference-Based Sequence Classification
This work provides a general framework for sequence classification, which is incremental as it builds upon existing pattern-based methods.
The authors tackled the problem of sequence classification by proposing a reference-based framework that unifies existing pattern-based methods and serves as a platform for developing new algorithms, with experimental results showing that new methods achieve comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art algorithms.
Sequence classification is an important data mining task in many real world applications. Over the past few decades, many sequence classification methods have been proposed from different aspects. In particular, the pattern-based method is one of the most important and widely studied sequence classification methods in the literature. In this paper, we present a reference-based sequence classification framework, which can unify existing pattern-based sequence classification methods under the same umbrella. More importantly, this framework can be used as a general platform for developing new sequence classification algorithms. By utilizing this framework as a tool, we propose new sequence classification algorithms that are quite different from existing solutions. Experimental results show that new methods developed under the proposed framework are capable of achieving comparable classification accuracy to those state-of-the-art sequence classification algorithms.