Debt Detection in Social Security by Sequence Classification Using Both Positive and Negative Patterns

  • Authors:
  • Yanchang Zhao;Huaifeng Zhang;Shanshan Wu;Jian Pei;Longbing Cao;Chengqi Zhang;Hans Bohlscheid

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia;Business Integrity Review Operations Branch, Centrelink, Australia;Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia;School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada;Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia;Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia;Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia and Business Integrity Review Operations Branch, Centrelink, Austra ...

  • Venue:
  • ECML PKDD '09 Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Debt detection is important for improving payment accuracy in social security. Since debt detection from customer transactional data can be generally modelled as a fraud detection problem, a straightforward solution is to extract features from transaction sequences and build a sequence classifier for debts. The existing sequence classification methods based on sequential patterns consider only positive patterns. However, according to our experience in a large social security application, negative patterns are very useful in accurate debt detection. In this paper, we present a successful case study of debt detection in a large social security application. The central technique is building sequence classification using both positive and negative sequential patterns.