Performance evaluation of classification methods in cultural modeling

Abstract

Cultural modeling is an emergent and promising research area in social computing. It aims to develop behavioral models of groups and analyze the impact of culture factors on group behavior using computational methods. Classification methods play a critical role in cultural modeling domain. As various cultural-related datasets possess different properties, for group behavior prediction, it is important to gain a computational understanding of the performance of various classification methods. In this paper, we investigate the performance of seven representative classification algorithms using a benchmark cultural modeling dataset and analyze the experimental results.