Interesting pattern mining in multi-relational data

  • Authors:
  • Eirini Spyropoulou;Tijl De Bie;Mario Boley

  • Affiliations:
  • Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK;Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK;Fraunhofer IAIS, Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany 53754

  • Venue:
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Mining patterns from multi-relational data is a problem attracting increasing interest within the data mining community. Traditional data mining approaches are typically developed for single-table databases, and are not directly applicable to multi-relational data. Nevertheless, multi-relational data is a more truthful and therefore often also a more powerful representation of reality. Mining patterns of a suitably expressive syntax directly from this representation, is thus a research problem of great importance. In this paper we introduce a novel approach to mining patterns in multi-relational data. We propose a new syntax for multi-relational patterns as complete connected subsets of database entities. We show how this pattern syntax is generally applicable to multi-relational data, while it reduces to well-known tiles " Geerts et al. (Proceedings of Discovery Science, pp 278---289, 2004)" when the data is a simple binary or attribute-value table. We propose RMiner, a simple yet practically efficient divide and conquer algorithm to mine such patterns which is an instantiation of an algorithmic framework for efficiently enumerating all fixed points of a suitable closure operator "Boley et al. (Theor Comput Sci 411(3):691---700, 2010)". We show how the interestingness of patterns of the proposed syntax can conveniently be quantified using a general framework for quantifying subjective interestingness of patterns "De Bie (Data Min Knowl Discov 23(3):407---446, 2011b)". Finally, we illustrate the usefulness and the general applicability of our approach by discussing results on real-world and synthetic databases.