Annexure III

Questions to be answered in the Viva Voce

1. What is the rationale behind reducing 40 general characteristics to 16? Are LD

symptoms Region specific? What will happen if you increase the number of
characteristics used? Will this affect LD detection in our system?

2. The method of evaluation – especially what is the training data set and what is the test
data set is not clear?

3. Explain clearly the interrelationships between symptoms of LD, their relative

importance and significance in the classification..

4. The reason for the poor performance of some algorithms against others – is this due
to the general nature of the algorithms or is this due to the nature of data?

5. What is the rationale behind imputing missing values? Explain how the nature of your
data set and the analysis of performance in Chapter 4 made you choose the methods
for improving performance described in this chapter.

6. Why were improvement methods applied only to NN and J48 and not to the other
classifications?

7. What are your contributions in the directions of developing new algorithms, use of
existing algorithms and models for LD data?

8. What are other types of data for which your tool can be used?