Parent represents competing children
This classification rule helps to resolve conflicts when two or more children of the same parent have a classification confidence
higher than the global threshold and are closer than the required minimum distance. Instead of leaving the document unclassified,
the parent class is used, meaning the parent can represent the children.
Note If a classification rule is applied to a document, a special icon is
displayed next to the document in the
Classification Results window. A tooltip for the
icon explains the applicable rule.
The following example shows an example for this rule. The difference in the classification results for the child classes franklin_paris (62.2 %) and franlin_london (52.9%) is lower than the required minimum distance of 10.0%. franklin is the nearest common parent, and becomes the classification result because it is given the highest confidence of all the children.
Tip If you do not want this behavior in your project, clear the
Valid classification result option in the
Class Properties for the
franklin class. Clearing that option means that
franklin is not a valid classification result option and the document is unclassified.
