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;;; This is one of the example programs from the textbook:
;;;
;;; Artificial Intelligence: 
;;; Structures and strategies for complex problem solving
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;;; by George F. Luger and William A. Stubblefield
;;; 
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;;;
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;;; This file defines the ID3 algorithm presented in chapter 14 of the
;;; text.  
;;;
;;; For a set of example data, along with instructions for its use,
;;; see the file credit.lisp
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;;; Data structure definitions


(defstruct property
  name                  ; the name of the property
  test                  ; an evaluable function of 1 argument, 
                        ; returns a property value
  values)               ; a list of all possible values returned by the test


(defstruct example-frame
  instances             ; A list of objects of known classification
  properties            ; A list of properties of objects in the domain.  
                        ; These will be used to define the tree
  classifier            ; A property that classifies objects in instances.  
                        ; The values of the classifier will be the eaves of the tree
  size               ; The number of objects in instances
  information)    ; The information content of instances

(defstruct partition
  test-name                  ; the name of the property used to partition the examples
  test                  ; a test function
  components            ; an alist of (property-value . example-frame) pairs
  info-gain)            ; information gain across all components of the partition

(defstruct decision-tree
  test-name                  ; the name of the property used to select a branch
  test                  ; an evaluable function, returns a property value used to select a branch
  branches)             ; an a-list of branches, indexed by the values of test

(defstruct leaf 
  value)

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;;; Functions to construct a decision tree using the ID3 algorithm

(defun build-tree (training-frame)
  (cond 
   
   ; Case 1: Empty example set. Create leaf with no classification
   ((zerop (example-frame-size training-frame))
    (make-leaf :value "unable to classify: no examples"))

   ; Case 2: All properties used. Create leaf with all remaining classes (may be ambiguous)
   ((null (example-frame-properties training-frame))
    (make-leaf :value (list-classes training-frame)))
    
   ; Case 3: All instances of same class.  Create a leaf    
   ((zerop (example-frame-information training-frame))
    (make-leaf :value (funcall
                       (property-test (example-frame-classifier training-frame))
                       (car (example-frame-instances training-frame)))))
        
   ; Case 4: Choose test for root of tree & recursively build subtrees
   (t (let ((part (choose-partition (gen-partitions training-frame))))
        (make-decision-tree
         :test-name (partition-test-name part)
         :test (partition-test part)
         :branches (mapcar #'(lambda (x) 
                               (cons (car x) (build-tree (cdr x)))) 
                           (partition-components part)))))))
             
; Generate all different partitions of an example frame
(defun gen-partitions (training-frame)
  (mapcar #'(lambda (x) (partition training-frame x)) 
          (example-frame-properties training-frame)))

; Partition takes an example frame and a property;
; It partitions the example frame on that property
; and returns an instance of a partition structure,
; where partition-components is an a-list of (property-value . example-frame) pairs
;
; It also computes the information gain and other statistics
; for each component of the partition
(defun partition (root-frame property)
  
  ; Initialize parts to to an a-list of empty example frames
  ; indexed by the values of property
  (let ((parts (mapcar #'(lambda (x) (cons x (make-example-frame))) 
                            (property-values property))))
    
    ; partition examples on property, placing each example in the appropriate
    ; example frame in parts
    (dolist (instance (example-frame-instances root-frame))
      (push instance (example-frame-instances 
                      (cdr (assoc (funcall (property-test property) instance) 
                                  parts)))))
    
    ; complete information in each component of the partition
    (mapcar #'(lambda (x) 
                (let ((frame (cdr x)))
                  (setf (example-frame-properties frame)
                        (remove property (example-frame-properties root-frame)))
                  (setf (example-frame-classifier frame)
                        (example-frame-classifier root-frame))
                  (setf (example-frame-size frame)
                        (list-length (example-frame-instances frame)))
                  (setf (example-frame-information frame)
                        (compute-information 
                         (example-frame-instances frame)
                         (example-frame-classifier root-frame)))))
            parts)

    ; return an instance of a partition
    (make-partition 
     :test-name (property-name property)
     :test (property-test property)
     :components parts
     :info-gain (compute-info-gain root-frame parts))))

; Choose partition takes a list of candidate partitions and chooses 
; The one with the highest information gain
(defun choose-partition (candidates)
  (cond ((null candidates) nil)
        ((= (list-length candidates) 1)
         (car candidates))
        (t (let ((best (choose-partition (cdr candidates))))
             (if (> (partition-info-gain (car candidates))
                    (partition-info-gain best))
               (car candidates)
               best)))))

; Lists all the classes in the instances of a training frame
(defun list-classes (training-frame)
  ; Eliminate those potential classifications not present
  ; in the instances of training frame
  (do 
   ((classes (property-values (example-frame-classifier training-frame))
              (cdr classes))
     (classifier (property-test (example-frame-classifier training-frame)))
     classes-present)

    ((null classes) classes-present)

    (if (member (car classes) (example-frame-instances training-frame) 
                :test #'(lambda (x y) (equal x (funcall classifier y))))
      (setf classes-present (cons (car classes) classes-present)))))

; compute the information gain of a partition
; by subtracting the weighted average of the information 
; in the children from the information in 
; the original set of instances.
(defun compute-info-gain (root parts)
  (- (example-frame-information root)
     (sum #'(lambda (x) (* (example-frame-information (cdr x))
                           (/ (example-frame-size (cdr x))
                              (example-frame-size root))))
          parts)))

; sum takes the sum of applying f to all numbers in list-of-numbers
(defun sum (f list-of-numbers)
  (apply '+ (mapcar f list-of-numbers)))


; Computes the information content of a list of examples using a classifier.
(defun compute-information (examples classifier)
  (let ((class-count 
         (mapcar #'(lambda (x) (cons x 0)) (property-values classifier))) 
        (size 0))          

    ; count number of instances in each class
    (dolist (instance examples)
      (incf size)
      (incf (cdr (assoc (funcall (property-test classifier) instance) 
                        class-count))))
    
    ;compute information content of examples
    (sum #'(lambda (x) (if (= (cdr x) 0) 0
                           (* -1 
                              (/ (cdr x) size) 
                              (log (/ (cdr x) size) 2)))) 
         class-count)))

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;;;;;; Classifies an instance using a decision tree

(defun classify (instance tree)
  (if (leaf-p tree) 
    (leaf-value tree)
    (classify instance
              (cdr (assoc (funcall (decision-tree-test tree) instance) 
                          (decision-tree-branches tree))))))

  

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