Title
A Multicriteria Approach to Data Summarization Using Concept Ontologies
Abstract
This paper describes a conceptual and theoretical framework to allow better user control over data summarization for knowledge discovery. Basic to the approach is a measure of quality of summarization of data using categories provided by the hierarchical structure of concept ontology. This involves the modeling, using a fuzzy sets approach, of the four criteria implicit in a summarization imperative: minimum coverage, minimum relevance, succinctness, and usefulness. With these criteria modeled, a multicriteria approach is presented, using a decision function aggregating these criteria that provides an overall quality measure to guide the summarization of the data. The development of the theory is first presented for the simple case of a single attribute to clearly delineate the basic issues and approach and then extended to multiple attributes. Finally, approaches to provide a more user-oriented presentation of the summarized data are considered
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/TFUZZ.2006.879954
IEEE T. Fuzzy Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
data summarization,fuzzy sets approach,overall quality measure,summarization imperative,better user control,multicriteria approach,basic issue,minimum relevance,summarized data,concept ontologies,minimum coverage,fuzzy set theory,fuzzy set,data analysis,knowledge discovery,data mining,fuzzy sets
Ontology (information science),Automatic summarization,Data mining,Ontology,User control,Computer science,Succinctness,Fuzzy set,Artificial intelligence,Knowledge extraction,Vocabulary,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
6
1063-6706
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
22
0.97
21
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ronald R. Yager1986206.03
F. E. Petry218419.59