To see the wood for the trees: mining frequent tree patterns

  • Authors:
  • Björn Bringmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Lab for Machine Learning, Institute of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2004 European conference on Constraint-Based Mining and Inductive Databases
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Various definitions and frameworks for discovering frequent trees in forests have been developed recently. At the heart of these frameworks lies the notion of matching, which determines if a pattern tree matches a tree in a data set. We compare four notions of tree matching for use in frequent tree mining and show how they are related to each other. Furthermore, we show how Zaki's TreeMinerV algorithm can be adapted to employ three of the four notions of tree matching. Experiments on synthetic and real world data highlight the differences between the matchings.