Symbolic Audio Classification via Modal Decision Tree Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17018v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:27:16 GMT
• Title: Symbolic Audio Classification via Modal Decision Tree Learning
• Authors: Enrico Marzano, Giovanni Pagliarini, Riccardo Pasini, Guido Sciavicco, Ionel Eduard Stan,
• Abstract summary: In this work, we consider several audio tasks, namely, age and gender recognition, emotion classification, and respiratory disease diagnosis.<n>We approach them with a symbolic technique, that is, (modal) decision tree learning.<n>We prove that such tasks can be solved using the same symbolic pipeline, that allows to extract simple rules with very high accuracy and low complexity.
• Score: 0.5592394503914488
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: The range of potential applications of acoustic analysis is wide. Classification of sounds, in particular, is a typical machine learning task that received a lot of attention in recent years. The most common approaches to sound classification are sub-symbolic, typically based on neural networks, and result in black-box models with high performances but very low transparency. In this work, we consider several audio tasks, namely, age and gender recognition, emotion classification, and respiratory disease diagnosis, and we approach them with a symbolic technique, that is, (modal) decision tree learning. We prove that such tasks can be solved using the same symbolic pipeline, that allows to extract simple rules with very high accuracy and low complexity. In principle, all such tasks could be associated to an autonomous conversation system, which could be useful in different contexts, such as an automatic reservation agent for an hospital or a clinic.

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