PROBLEMS WITH THE IND DECISION TREE PACKAGE

• Cannot handle large classification problems

  
  

  • Large number of classes

    
    

  • Large number of attributes

    
    

• Cannot handle large number of values for each class and attribute label

  
  

• Cannot handle non-alphanumeric characters as a class label or an attribute value

  
  

  • Can use number to represent these special symbols but not readable for problems like surname pronunciation generation where the classes are mainly consisted of special symbols (i. e. @, _, &)