Lessons from Past, Current Issues, and Future Research Directions in Extracting the Knowledge Embedded in Artificial Neural Networks Export

@incollection{Tickle:2000, abstract = {Active research into processes and techniques for extracting the knowledge embedded within trained artificial neural networks has continued unabated for almost ten years. Given the considerable effort invested to date, what progress has been made? What lessons have been learned? What direction should the field take from here? This paper seeks to answer these questions. The focus is primarily on techniques for extracting rule-based explanations from feed-forward ANNs since, to date, the preponderance of the effort has been expended in this arena. However the paper also briefly reviews the broadening overall agenda for ANN knowledge-elicitation. Finally the paper identifies some of the key research questions including the search for criteria for deciding in which problem domains these techniques are likely to out-perform techniques such as Inductive Decision Trees.}, author = {Tickle, Alan and Maire, Frederic and Bologna, Guido and Andrews, Robert and Diederich, Joachim}, citeulike-article-id = {4665887}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/10719871_16}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/43n8w72q174128x1}, doi = {10.1007/10719871_16}, journal = {Hybrid Neural Systems}, keywords = {neural-networks, phd, rule-extraction}, pages = {226--239}, posted-at = {2009-05-28 13:03:32}, priority = {2}, title = {Lessons from Past, Current Issues, and Future Research Directions in Extracting the Knowledge Embedded in Artificial Neural Networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/10719871_16}, year = {2000} }

TY - CHAP ID - Tickle:2000 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4665887 N2 - Active research into processes and techniques for extracting the knowledge embedded within trained artificial neural networks has continued unabated for almost ten years. Given the considerable effort invested to date, what progress has been made? What lessons have been learned? What direction should the field take from here? This paper seeks to answer these questions. The focus is primarily on techniques for extracting rule-based explanations from feed-forward ANNs since, to date, the preponderance of the effort has been expended in this arena. However the paper also briefly reviews the broadening overall agenda for ANN knowledge-elicitation. Finally the paper identifies some of the key research questions including the search for criteria for deciding in which problem domains these techniques are likely to out-perform techniques such as Inductive Decision Trees. JF - Hybrid Neural Systems EP - 239 TI - Lessons from Past, Current Issues, and Future Research Directions in Extracting the Knowledge Embedded in Artificial Neural Networks SP - 226 KW - neural-networks KW - phd KW - rule-extraction AU - Tickle, Alan AU - Maire, Frederic AU - Bologna, Guido AU - Andrews, Robert AU - Diederich, Joachim PY - 2000/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/10719871_16 ER -