When dealing with complex problems, it is often the case that fuzzy systems must undergo an optimization process. During this process, the preservation of interpretability is a major concern. Here we present a new mathematical framework to analyze the notion of interpretability of a fuzzy partition, and a generic algorithm to preserve it. This approach is rather flexible and it helps to highly ...

This special issue encompasses four papers devoted to the recent developments in the field of ‘‘Genetic fuzzy systems and the trade-off between interpretability and accuracy’’. The issue was originated from several contributions presented at the First International Workshop on Genetic Fuzzy Systems (GFS2005) that was held in Granada, Spain, March 17–19, 2005. Six conference papers were selected...

Word sense embeddings represent a word sense as a low-dimensional numeric vector. While this representation is potentially useful for NLP applications, its interpretability is inherently limited. We propose a simple technique that improves interpretability of sense vectors by mapping them to synsets of a lexical resource. Our experiments with AdaGram sense embeddings and BabelNet synsets show t...

Models work best when they are optimized taking into account the evaluation criteria that people care about. For topic models, people often care about interpretability, which can be approximated using measures of lexical association. We integrate lexical association into topic optimization using tree priors, which provide a flexible framework that can take advantage of both first order word ass...

A fuzzy rule-based system design concentrates on accuracy and interpretability of the system. Fuzzy decision tree method is proposed based on fuzzy RDBMS and rule generation based on C4.5 algorithm known as fuzzy rule generation system (FRGS) algorithm. A fuzzy decision tree is developed by first converting a medical application of heart relational database to fuzzy heart relational database an...

Improving the interpretability of multivariate models is of primary interest for many neuroimaging studies. In this study, we present an application of multi-task learning (MTL) to enhance the interpretability of linear classifiers once applied to neuroimaging data. To attain our goal, we propose to divide the data into spatial fractions and define the temporal data of each spatial unit as a ta...

Rule based systems are basically knowledge base systems. They imitate the functionalty of human decision making process in machines. The knowledge is stored in the Knowledge Base of the fuzzy rule based systems. The knowledge is expressed, manipulated and processed by using fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic represents the human knowledge very well because its mathematical framework is very strong to dea...