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- Title
Mining frequent closed rooted trees.
- Authors
Balcázar, José; Bifet, Albert; Lozano, Antoni
- Abstract
Many knowledge representation mechanisms are based on tree-like structures, thus symbolizing the fact that certain pieces of information are related in one sense or another. There exists a well-studied process of closure-based data mining in the itemset framework: we consider the extension of this process into trees. We focus mostly on the case where labels on the nodes are nonexistent or unreliable, and discuss algorithms for closure-based mining that only rely on the root of the tree and the link structure. We provide a notion of intersection that leads to a deeper understanding of the notion of support-based closure, in terms of an actual closure operator. We describe combinatorial characterizations and some properties of ordered trees, discuss their applicability to unordered trees, and rely on them to design efficient algorithms for mining frequent closed subtrees both in the ordered and the unordered settings. Empirical validations and comparisons with alternative algorithms are provided.
- Subjects
DATA mining; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER science; DATABASE management; DATA structures
- Publication
Machine Learning, 2010, Vol 78, Issue 1-2, p1
- ISSN
0885-6125
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10994-009-5123-9