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Most of Computational Intelligence models (e.g. neural networks or distance based methods) are designed to operate on continuous data and provide no tools to adapt their parameters to data described by symbolic values. Two new conversion methods which replace symbolic by continuous attributes are presented and compared to two commonly known ones. The advantages of the continuousification are illustrated with the results obtained with a neural network, SVM and a kNN systems for the converted data.
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Grąbczewski, K., Jankowski, N. (2003). Transformations of Symbolic Data for Continuous Data Oriented Models. In: Kaynak, O., Alpaydin, E., Oja, E., Xu, L. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing — ICANN/ICONIP 2003. ICANN ICONIP 2003 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2714. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44989-2_43
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