Reduced-Error Pruning Split data into training and validation set Do until further pruning is harmful: 1. Evaluate impact on validation set of pruning each possible node (plus those below it) 2. Greedily remove the one that most improves validation set accuracy produces smallest version of most accurate subtree · What if data is limited?
Goal Concept: A concept definition describing the concept to be learned. (It is assumed that this concept definition fails to satisfy the Operationality Criterion. Training Example: An example of the goal concept Domain Theory: A set of rules and facts to be used in explaining how the training example is an example of the goal concept
