Comparing Rule Mining Approaches for Classification with Reasoning
Abstract
Classification serves an important role in domains such as network security or health care. Although these domains require understanding of the classifier’s decision, there are only a few classification methods trying to justify or explain their results. Classification rules and decision trees are generally considered comprehensible. Therefore, this study compares the classification performance and comprehensibility of a random forest classifier with classification rules extracted by Frequent Item Set Mining, Logical Item Set Mining and by the Explainer algorithm, which was previously proposed by the authors.