Fuzzy Inductive Learning Strategies

  • Authors:
  • Ching-Hung Wang;Chang-Jiun Tsai;Tzung-Pei Hong;Shian-Shyong Tseng

  • Affiliations:
  • Chunghwa Telecommunication Laboratories, Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Chung-Li 32617, Taiwan, R.O.C. ching@ms.tl.gov.tw;Institute of Computer and Information Science, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu 30050, Taiwan, R.O.C. sstseng@cis.nctu.edu.tw;Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan, R.O.C. tphong@nuk.edu.tw;Institute of Computer and Information Science, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu 30050, Taiwan, R.O.C.

  • Venue:
  • Applied Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In real applications, data provided to a learning system usually contain linguistic information which greatly influences concept descriptions derived by conventional inductive learning methods. Design of learning methods for working with vague data is thus very important. In this paper, we apply fuzzy set concepts to machine learning to solve this problem. A fuzzy learning algorithm based on the AQR learning strategy is proposed to manage linguistic information. The proposed learning algorithm generates fuzzy linguistic rules from “soft” instances. Experiments on the Sports and the Iris Flower classification problems are presented to compare the accuracy of the proposed algorithm with those of some other learning algorithms. Experimental results show that the rules derived from our approach are simpler and yield higher accuracy than those from some other learning algorithms.