Knowledge-Based Interactive Post Mining of Association Rules Using Ontologies
Knowledge-Based Interactive Post Mining of Association Rules Using Ontologies
Knowledge-Based Interactive Post Mining of Association Rules Using Ontologies
USING ONTOLOGIES
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THOTA S THRIVENI
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P . RAMADEVI M.Tech
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CERTIFICATE
supervision and is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the
constant encouragement and invaluable support throughout the course of the project.
Assistant professor, my guide, for his guidance and cooperation in completing this paper
successfully.
I thank one and all who have rendered help directly or indirectly in the
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1.2 Mining of Association Rules.......................................
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ABSTRACT
In Data Mining, the usefulness of association rules is strongly limited by the huge
amount of delivered rules. To overcome this drawback, several methods were proposed in
the literature such as item set concise representations, redundancy reduction, and post
processing. However, being generally based on statistical information, most of these
methods do not guarantee that the extracted rules are interesting for the user. Thus, it is
crucial to help the decision-maker with an efficient post processing step in order to
reduce the number of rules. This paper proposes a new interactive approach to prune and
filter discovered rules. First, we propose to use ontologies in order to improve the
integration of user knowledge in the post processing task. Second, we propose the Rule
Schema formalism extending the specification language proposed by Liu et al. for user
expectations. Furthermore, an interactive framework is designed to assist the user
throughout the analyzing task. Applying our new approach over voluminous sets of rules,
we were able, by integrating domain expert knowledge in the post processing step, to
reduce the number of rules to several dozens or less. Moreover, the quality of the filtered
rules was validated by the domain expert at various points in the interactive process.
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