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AAAI
1990
13 years 6 months ago
What Should Be Minimized in a Decision Tree?
In this paper, we address the issue of evaluating decision trees generated from training examples by a learning algorithm. We give a set of performance measures and show how some ...
Usama M. Fayyad, Keki B. Irani
ECML
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Simple Test Strategies for Cost-Sensitive Decision Trees
We study cost-sensitive learning of decision trees that incorporate both test costs and misclassification costs. In particular, we first propose a lazy decision tree learning that ...
Shengli Sheng, Charles X. Ling, Qiang Yang
JQL
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Dependency-length minimization in natural and artificial languages
A wide range of evidence points to a preference for syntactic structures in which dependencies are short. Here we examine the question: what kinds of dependency configurations min...
David Temperley
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Cost-Sensitive Test Strategies
In medical diagnosis doctors must often determine what medical tests (e.g., X-ray, blood tests) should be ordered for a patient to minimize the total cost of medical tests and mis...
Shengli Sheng, Charles X. Ling, Ailing Ni, Shichao...
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Multi-criteria argument selection in persuasion dialogues
The main goal of a persuasion dialogue is to persuade, but agents may have a number of additional goals concerning the dialogue duration, how much and what information is shared o...
Thomas L. van der Weide, Frank Dignum, John-Jules ...