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Extended Taxonomy of Rule Extraction Techniques and Assessment of KDRuleEx

by Kamal Kumar Sethi, Durgesh Kumar Mishra, Bharat Mishra
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 50 - Number 21
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: Kamal Kumar Sethi, Durgesh Kumar Mishra, Bharat Mishra
10.5120/7928-1236

Kamal Kumar Sethi, Durgesh Kumar Mishra, Bharat Mishra . Extended Taxonomy of Rule Extraction Techniques and Assessment of KDRuleEx. International Journal of Computer Applications. 50, 21 ( July 2012), 25-31. DOI=10.5120/7928-1236

@article{ 10.5120/7928-1236,
author = { Kamal Kumar Sethi, Durgesh Kumar Mishra, Bharat Mishra },
title = { Extended Taxonomy of Rule Extraction Techniques and Assessment of KDRuleEx },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { July 2012 },
volume = { 50 },
number = { 21 },
month = { July },
year = { 2012 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 25-31 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume50/number21/7928-1236/ },
doi = { 10.5120/7928-1236 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Kamal Kumar Sethi
%A Durgesh Kumar Mishra
%A Bharat Mishra
%T Extended Taxonomy of Rule Extraction Techniques and Assessment of KDRuleEx
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 50
%N 21
%P 25-31
%D 2012
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Classifiers like ANN & SVM are always preferred over other classification model like decision tree due to higher accuracy but lacking explainability and comprehensibility. Rule extraction techniques bridges gap between accuracy and comprehensibility. To evaluate and compare different rule extraction techniques, we require measures for evaluation and categorization. Taxonomy helps us to select a technique based on the requirements and desired priorities. In this paper, we extended popular ADT-taxonomy of rule extraction which has been designed for ANN as underlying model. Proposed taxonomy covers all types of work related to rule extraction. It makes easier to introduce new rule extraction techniques by improving the performance on evaluation criteria. In this paper almost all possible aspects of evaluation and categorization of rule extraction techniques has been considered and further used to evaluate the algorithm KDRuleEx.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Rule Extraction Taxonomy Decision Table Accuracy Fidelity Comprehensibility Consistency Translucency