Conceptual clustering and its application to concept drift and novelty detection

  • Authors:
  • Nicola Fanizzi;Claudia d'Amato;Floriana Esposito

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ESWC'08 Proceedings of the 5th European semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The paper presents a clustering method which can be applied to populated ontologies for discovering interesting groupings of resources therein. The method exploits a simple, yet effective and language-independent, semi-distance measure for individuals, that is based on their underlying semantics along with a number of dimensions corresponding to a set of concept descriptions (discriminating features committee). The clustering algorithm is a partitional method and it is based on the notion of medoids w.r.t. the adopted semi-distance measure. Eventually, it produces a hierarchical organization of groups of individuals. A final experiment demonstrates the validity of the approach using absolute quality indices. We propose two possible exploitations of these clusterings: concept formation and detecting concept drift or novelty.