AutoML strategy based on grammatical evolution: A case study about knowledge discovery from text
The process of extracting knowledge from natural language text poses a complex problem that requires both a combination of machine learning techniques and proper feature selection. Recent advances in Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML) provide effective tools to explore large sets of algorithms, hyper-parameters and features to find out the most suitable combination of them. This paper proposes a novel AutoML strategy based on probabilistic grammatical evolution, which is evaluated on the health domain by facing the knowledge discovery challenge in Spanish text documents. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art results and provides interesting insights into the best combination of parameters and algorithms to use when dealing with this challenge. Source code is provided for the research community.
Revista: Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 4356–4365
Autores: S Estevez-Velarde, Y Gutiérrez, A Montoyo, Y Almeida-Cruz