On classification trees and random forests in corpus linguistics: Some words of caution and suggestions for improvement-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

On classification trees and random forests in corpus linguistics: Some words of caution and suggestions for improvement

Published:2019-04-16 Issue:3 Volume:16 Page:617-647
ISSN:1613-7035
Container-title:Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
language:en
Short-container-title:

Author:

Th Gries Stefan¹²

Affiliation:

1. University of California , Santa Barbara , CA , USA

2. Justus Liebig University Giessen , Giessen , Germany

Abstract

Abstract This paper is a discussion of methodological problems that (can) arise in the analysis of multifactorial data analyzed with tree-based or forest-based classifiers in (corpus) linguistics. I showcase a data set that highlights where such methods can fail at providing optimal results and then discuss solutions to this problem as well as the interpretation of random forests more generally.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Reference38 articles.

1. Bernaisch, Tobias, Stefan Th. Gries, & Joybrato Mukherjee. 2014. The dative alternation in South Asian English(es): Modelling predictors and predicting prototypes. English World-Wide 35(1). 7–31.

2. Boulesteix, Anne-Laure, Silke Janitza, Alexander Hapfelmeier, Kristel Van Steen & Carolin Strobl. 2015. Letter to the editor: On the term ‘interaction’ and related phrases in the literature on random forests. Briefings in Bioinformatics 16(2). 338–345.

3. Breiman, Leo. 2001. Random forests. Machine Learning 45. 5–32.

4. Crawley, Michael J. 2013. The R Book. 2nd ed. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

5. Dasgupta, Abhijit. 2014. Reprtree: Representative trees from ensembles. A package for R; GithubRepo: reprtree.

Cited by 58 articles. 订阅此论文施引文献订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献

1. Social network effects on particle variation among Singapore students;World Englishes;2024-07-17

2. Parentheticals in spoken Indian and Sri Lankan English;World Englishes;2024-07-17

3. Exploration of the mandative subjunctive in Pakistani English;World Englishes;2024-07-16

4. Expectation through imitation: towards a unified protocol for roleplay in developmental sociolinguistics;Language Sciences;2024-07

5. Particle Placement in Hong Kong English: Independence from Great Britain as a Trigger of Structural Change?;Journal of English Linguistics;2024-05-27