Making Decision Trees More Accurate by Losing Information

  • Authors:
  • Takao Miura;Isamu Shioya;Mikihiro Mori

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FoIKS '00 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this investigation we discuss how to improve the quality of decision trees, one of the classification techniques in compensation for small loss of amount of information. To do that, we assume a semantic hierarchy among classes which is ignored in conventional stories. The basic idea comes from relaxing class membership by using the hierarchy and we explore how to preserve the precision of classification in a sense of entropy.