著者

アルモアリム フセイン 秋葉 泰弘 金田 重郎

出版者

社団法人人工知能学会

雑誌

人工知能学会誌 (ISSN:09128085)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, no.3, pp.421-429, 1997-05-01

被引用文献数

7

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This paper studies the problem of learning decision trees when the attributes of the domain are tree-structured. Quinlan suggests a pre-processing approach to this problem. When the size of the hierarchies used is huge, Quinlan's approach is not efficient and effective. We introduce our own approach which handles tree-structured attributes directly without the need for pre-processing. We present experiments on natural and artificial data that suggest that our direct approach leads to better generalization performance than the Quinlan-encoding approach and runs roughly two to four times faster.