weka.classifiers
Interface ActiveFeatureAcquirer

All Known Implementing Classes:
Fable

public interface ActiveFeatureAcquirer

Interface to permit a classifier to perform active feature aquisition.


Method Summary
 int[] selectInstancesForFeatures(Instances activePool, int num)
          Given a set of unlabeled examples, select a specified number of examples to be labeled.
 

Method Detail

selectInstancesForFeatures

public int[] selectInstancesForFeatures(Instances activePool,
                                        int num)
                                 throws java.lang.Exception
Given a set of unlabeled examples, select a specified number of examples to be labeled.

Parameters:
activePool - pool of examples with missing features
num - number of examples to selcted for acquiring remaining features
Throws:
java.lang.Exception - if selective sampling fails