What is RELIEF stands for?

Question

I recently applied a feature selection algorithm called 'RELIEF' for my pattern recognition problem for comparison. The wiki page of 'RELIEF' can be found here RELIEF. But search the Internet, I couldn't find what is RELIEF stands for. Even in the original paper I couldn't find it. Does anyone knows this abbreviation? Thanks a lot.

A.

Answer 1

It's just a name for a feature selection algorithm, and it's not an abbreviation for any other words as far as I know. Additionally, in the original paper 'RELIEF' is also written as 'Relief'. This also proves my point of view.