com.rapidminer.operator.learner.rules
Class RuleLearner

java.lang.Object
  com.rapidminer.operator.Operator
      com.rapidminer.operator.learner.AbstractLearner
          com.rapidminer.operator.learner.rules.RuleLearner

All Implemented Interfaces:

ConfigurationListener, PreviewListener, Learner, ParameterHandler, LoggingHandler

public class RuleLearner
extends AbstractLearner

This operator works similar to the propositional rule learner named Repeated Incremental Pruning to Produce Error Reduction (RIPPER, Cohen 1995). Starting with the less prevalent classes, the algorithm iteratively grows and prunes rules until there are no positive examples left or the error rate is greater than 50%.

In the growing phase, for each rule greedily conditions are added to the rule until the rule is perfect (i.e. 100% accurate). The procedure tries every possible value of each attribute and selects the condition with highest information gain.

In the prune phase, for each rule any final sequences of the antecedents is pruned with the pruning metric p/(p+n).

Author:

Sebastian Land, Ingo Mierswa

Field Summary

static java.lang.Class[]	CRITERIA_CLASSES
static java.lang.String[]	CRITERIA_NAMES
static int	CRITERION_ACCURACY
static int	CRITERION_INFO_GAIN

Fields inherited from class com.rapidminer.operator.learner.AbstractLearner

PROPERTY_RAPIDMINER_GENERAL_CAPABILITIES_WARN

Constructor Summary

RuleLearner(OperatorDescription description)

Method Summary

java.util.List<ParameterType>	getParameterTypes() Returns a list of ParameterTypes describing the parameters of this operator.
Model	learn(ExampleSet exampleSet) Trains a model.
boolean	supportsCapability(LearnerCapability capability) Checks for Learner capabilities.

Methods inherited from class com.rapidminer.operator.learner.AbstractLearner

apply, getEstimatedPerformance, getInputClasses, getInputDescription, getOptimizationPerformance, getOutputClasses, getWeights, onlyWarnForNonSufficientCapabilities, shouldCalculateWeights, shouldDeliverOptimizationPerformance, shouldEstimatePerformance

Methods inherited from class com.rapidminer.operator.Operator

addError, addValue, addWarning, apply, checkDeprecations, checkForStop, checkIO, checkProperties, clearErrorList, cloneOperator, createExperimentTree, createExperimentTree, createFromXML, createMarkedExperimentTree, createMarkedProcessTree, createProcessTree, createProcessTree, getAddOnlyAdditionalOutput, getApplyCount, getDeliveredOutputClasses, getDeprecationInfo, getDesiredInputClasses, getEncoding, getErrorList, getExperiment, getInnerOperatorsXML, getInput, getInput, getInput, getIOContainerForInApplyLoopBreakpoint, getIODescription, getLog, getName, getOperatorClassName, getOperatorDescription, getParameter, getParameterAsBoolean, getParameterAsColor, getParameterAsDouble, getParameterAsFile, getParameterAsFile, getParameterAsInputStream, getParameterAsInt, getParameterAsMatrix, getParameterAsString, getParameterList, getParameters, getParameterType, getParent, getProcess, getStartTime, getStatus, getUserDescription, getValue, getValues, getXML, hasBreakpoint, hasBreakpoint, hasInput, inApplyLoop, isDebugMode, isEnabled, isExpanded, isParallel, isParameterSet, log, logError, logNote, logWarning, performAdditionalChecks, processFinished, processStarts, register, registerOperator, remove, rename, resume, setApplyCount, setBreakpoint, setEnabled, setExpanded, setInput, setListParameter, setOperatorParameters, setParameter, setParameters, setParent, setUserDescription, toString, unregisterOperator, writeXML

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface com.rapidminer.operator.learner.Learner

getName

Field Detail

CRITERIA_NAMES

public static final java.lang.String[] CRITERIA_NAMES

CRITERIA_CLASSES

public static final java.lang.Class[] CRITERIA_CLASSES

CRITERION_INFO_GAIN

public static final int CRITERION_INFO_GAIN

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Constant Field Values

CRITERION_ACCURACY

public static final int CRITERION_ACCURACY

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

RuleLearner

public RuleLearner(OperatorDescription description)

Method Detail

learn

public Model learn(ExampleSet exampleSet)
            throws OperatorException

Description copied from interface: Learner

Trains a model. This method should be called by apply() and is implemented by subclasses.

Throws:

OperatorException

supportsCapability

public boolean supportsCapability(LearnerCapability capability)

Description copied from interface: Learner

Checks for Learner capabilities. Should return true if the given capability is supported.

getParameterTypes

public java.util.List<ParameterType> getParameterTypes()

Description copied from class: Operator

Returns a list of ParameterTypes describing the parameters of this operator. The default implementation returns an empty list if no input objects can be retained and special parameters for those input objects which can be prevented from being consumed.

Specified by:

getParameterTypes in interface ParameterHandler

Overrides:

getParameterTypes in class Operator