• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.6
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• pp.593-598
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• 2003

Machine learning organizes knowledge for efficient and accurate reuse. This paper is concerned with methods of concept learning from examples, which glean knowledge from a training set of preclassified ‘objects’. Ideally, training facilitates classification of novel, previously unseen objects. However, every learning system relies on processing and representation assumptions that may be detrimental under certain circumstances. We explore the biases of a well-known learning system, ID3, review improvements, and introduce some improvements of our own, each designed to yield accurate and pedagogically sound classification.