@inproceedings{871, author = {Yasitha Liyanage and Daphney-Stavroula Zois and Charalampos Chelmis}, title = {On–The–Fly Feature Selection and Classification with Application to Civic Engagement Platforms}, abstract = {Online feature selection and classification is crucial for time sensitive decision making. Existing work however either assumes that features are independent or produces a fixed number of features for classification. Instead, we propose an optimal framework to perform joint feature selection and classification on-the-fly while relaxing the assumption on feature independence. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is showed by classifying urban issue reports on the SeeClickFix civic engagement platform. A significant reduction in the average number of features used is observed without a drop in the classification accuracy.}, year = {2020}, journal = {2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, chapter = {3762}, pages = {5}, month = {05}, url = {https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10196234}, doi = {10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9053564}, }