This paper is a discussion of methodological problems that (can) arise in the analysis of multifactorial data analyzed with tree-based or forest-based classifiers in (corpus) linguistics. I showcase a data set that highlights where such methods can fail at providing optimal results and then discuss solutions to this problem as well as the interpretation of random forests more generally.
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