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Title
Clustering association rules to build beliefs and discover unexpected patterns
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Abstract
Interesting pattern discovery is an important topic in data mining research. Many different definitions have been proposed to describe whether a pattern is interesting. Among these many definitions, unexpectedness has shown to be a highly promising measure. Mining unexpected patterns allows one to identify a failing in prior knowledge and may suggest an aspect of the data that deserves further investigation. Unexpected patterns are typically mined using belief-driven methods, but these require an established belief system. Prior studies have manually built their own partial belief systems to apply their method, but these remain laborious to create. In this study, we propose a novel approach that is able to automatically detect beliefs from data, which can in turn be used to reveal unexpected patterns. Central to this approach is a clustering-based method in which clusters represent beliefs and outliers are potential unexpected patterns. We also propose a pattern representation that captures the semantic relation between patterns rather than the lexical difference. An experimental evaluation on different datasets and a comparison to some other methods demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, as well as the relevance of the discovered patterns.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Applied intelligence. - Boston, Mass., 1991, currens
Publication
Dordrecht : Springer , 2020
ISSN
0924-669X [print]
1573-7497 [online]
DOI
10.1007/S10489-020-01651-1
Volume/pages
12 p.
ISI
000516340900002
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
Efficient mining for unexpected patterns in complex biological data.
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 17.12.2024
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