Parent represents competing children – Kofax Getting Started with Ascent Xtrata Pro User Manual
Page 86

Classification
Ascent Xtrata Pro User's Guide
67
The figure above shows an example for this rule. Politik is the parent of
Energiepolitik. Both have a classification confidence higher than the global threshold
of 50%, and the parent has the highest confidence. Due to the “Single child wins over
parent” rule, Energiepolitik becomes the final classification result.
Parent Represents Competing Children
This rule helps to resolve conflicts when two or more children of the same parent
have a classification confidence higher than the global threshold and closer than the
required minimum distance. Instead of leaving the document unclassified, the parent
class is used, meaning the parent can represent its children.
Figure 3-6. Classification Rule - Parent Represents Competing Children
The figure shows an example for this rule. The difference in the classification results
for the child classes Energiepolitik (59.4 %) and Wirtschaftspolitik (65.0%) is smaller
than the required minimum distance of 10.0%. Politik, which is the nearest common