Ensemble methods improve accuracy by combining the predictions of a set of different hypotheses. However, there are two important shortcomings associated with ensemble methods. Huge amounts of memory are required to store a set of multiple hypotheses and, more importantly, comprehensibility of a single hypothesis is lost. In this work, we devise a new method to extract one single solution from ...

Clustering is an important data mining task which helps in nding useful patterns to summarize the data. In the KDD context, data mining is often used for description purposes rather than for prediction. However, it turns out diicult to nd clustering systems that help to ease the interpretation task to the user in both, statistics and Machine Learning elds. In this paper we present Isaac, a hier...

The significant growth of consumer credit has resulted in a wide range of statistical and non-statistical methods for classifying applicants in ‘good’ and ‘bad’ risk categories. Traditionally, (logistic) regression used to be one of the most popular methods for this task, but recently some newer techniques like neural networks and support vector machines have shown excellent classification perf...

In the AI field of language learning, chatterbots are an interesting area for learning and practice. This research investigates Arabic EFL vocabulary using interactive storytelling chatterbot. A chatterbot was created equipped with four tools: a dictionary, images, L1 translation tool, concordancer. The target words were enhanced by these tools to provide learners comprehensible input. project ...

This article addresses the problem of the induction of comprehensible hypotheses on complex domains. It proposes a hypothesis language (a type of decision graph) and an inductive algorithm (PASTEUR) which naturally induces structured rules. The advantages over other hypothesis languages in terms of comprehensibility are reviewed as well as the possibility given to represent explicitly exception...

Towards Comprehensible and Effective Permission Systems