hierarchical classification

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hierarchical
adjective
uk
/ˌhaɪəˈrɑː.kɪ.kəl/us
/ˌhaɪˈrɑːr.kɪ.kəl/
arranged according to people's or things' level of importance, or relating to such ...
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classification
noun
uk
/ˌklæs.ɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌklæs.ə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act or process of dividing things into groups according to ...
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Similarly,hierarchicalclassificationcan be expressed using multiple iterators with different features.
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Figure 4 contains ahierarchicalclassificationof a bridge.
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Ahierarchicalclassificationwith 20,000 microbial names indexes the resources available locally and allows for taxon-specific links to be made to remote sites and databases.
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The algorithm performed much better when we made thehierarchicalclassificationcontained in the item codes explicit.
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Following an iterative process, the descendinghierarchicalclassificationmethod decomposes the classes until a predetermined number of iterations fails to result in further divisions.
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Conceptualization approaches suggest ahierarchicalclassificationscheme for the functional concepts, define classes objectively, and aggregate objects into classes.
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Data were treated by means of factorial analysis followed by an ascendanthierarchicalclassification on columns and rows in order to obtain a diagonalization of the matrix.
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Using past bridge designs as training examples, each system generateshierarchicalclassificationstructures that can be used to assist in the synthesis of similar bridge designs.
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There are many different bases of classifying filters and these overlap in many different ways; there is no simplehierarchicalclassification.
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Most existing species can be organized rather easily in a nestedhierarchicalclassification.
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Those were systems ofhierarchicalclassificationthat were intended to result in both spoken and written expression.
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There are a lot of similar applications that can also be tackled byhierarchicalclassificationsuch as written text recognition, robot awareness, etc.
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Thehierarchicalclassificationof articles for a subject can be used to locate an article.
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Another example of parameter adjustment ishierarchicalclassification(sometimes referred to as instance space decomposition), which splits a complete multi-class problem into a set of smaller classication problems.
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It is a general-purpose,hierarchicalclassificationsystem, and consists of five categorical levels from the most general to the most specific: "order", "suborder", "great group", "subgroup", and "family".
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