Title
Building a Concept Hierarchy from a Distance Matrix
Abstract
Concept hierarchies are important in many generalized data mining applications, such as multiple level association rule mining. In literature, concept hierarchy is usually given by domain experts. In this paper, we propose algorithms to automatically build a concept hierarchy from a provided distance matrix. Our approach is modifying the traditional hierarchical clustering algorithms. For the purpose of algorithm evaluation, a distance matrix is derived from the concept hierarchy built by our algorithm. Root mean squared error between the provided distant matrix and the derived distance matrix is used as evaluation criterion. We compare the traditional hierarchical clustering and our modified algorithm under three strategies of computing cluster distance, namely single link, average link, and complete link. Empirical results show that the traditional algorithm under complete link strategy performs better than the other strategies. Our modified algorithms perform almost the same under the three strategies, and our algorithms perform better than the traditional algorithms under various situations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/3-540-32392-9_10
INTELLIGENT INFORMATION PROCESSING AND WEB MINING, PROCEEDINGS
Keywords
Field
DocType
association rule mining,hierarchical clustering,root mean square error,distance matrix
Hierarchical clustering,k-medians clustering,Data mining,Computer science,Matrix (mathematics),Tree (data structure),Mean squared error,Association rule learning,Artificial intelligence,Distance matrix,Hierarchy,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1615-3871
6
0.55
References 
Authors
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huang-Cheng Kuo14223.87
Jen-Peng Huang2576.45