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• Manipulative bulletin board for early categorization

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  Chrysanthi Skoumpourdi

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  According to various researchers categorization is a developmentally appropriate mathematical concept for young children. Classifying objects also relates to every day activities of human life. The manipulative bulletin board (MBB) served as a kind of auxiliary means for approaching categorization by young children. In this article we investigated the kind of MBB that pre-service early childhood education teachers constructed in order to involve children in tasks of categorization, as well as, the way children manipulated these boards in order to categorize items. The MBB, as teaching aids, facilitated the engagement of the children in different categorization processes.

• An improvement of the classification algorithm results

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  Kristína Machová

  Miroslav Puszta

  Peter Bednár

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  One of the most important aspects of the precision of a classification is the suitable selection of a classification algorithm and a training set for a given task. Basic principles of machine learning can be used for this selection [3]. In this paper, we have focused on improving the precision of classification algorithms results. Two kinds of approaches are known: Boosting and Bagging. This paper describes the use of the first method – boosting [6] which aims at algorithms generating decision trees. A modification of the AdaBoost algorithm was implemented. Another similar method called Bagging [1] is mentioned. Results of performance tests focused on the use of the boosting method on binary decision trees are presented. The minimum number of decision trees, which enables improvement of the classification performed by a base machine learning algorithm, was found. The tests were carried out using the Reuters 21578 collection of documents and documents from an internet portal of TV Markíza.