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The quality of food can be assessed from different points of view. In this paper, we deal with those aspects that can be appreciated through sensory impressions. When we are aiming to induce a function that maps object descriptions into ratings, we must consider that consumers’ ratings are just a way to express their preferences about the products presented in the same testing session. Therefore, we postulate to learn from consumers’ preference judgments instead of using an approach based on regression. This requires the use of special purpose kernels and feature subset selection methods. We illustrate the benefits of our approach in two families of real-world data bases.
The research reported in this paper has been supported in part under Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (MCyT) and Feder grant TIC2001-3579.
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- Support Vector Machine
- Sensory Data
- Bayesian Belief Network
- Feature Subset Selection
- Preference Judgment
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Luaces, O., Bayón, G.F., Quevedo, J.R., Díez, J., del Coz, J.J., Bahamonde, A. (2004). Analyzing Sensory Data Using Non-linear Preference Learning with Feature Subset Selection. In: Boulicaut, JF., Esposito, F., Giannotti, F., Pedreschi, D. (eds) Machine Learning: ECML 2004. ECML 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3201. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30115-8_28
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