Automated generalization of fuzzy concept hierarchies for attribute-oriented induction purposes

  • Authors:
  • Jacob Dolan;Rafal A. Angryk

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT;Department of Computer Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

  • Venue:
  • DBA'06 Proceedings of the 24th IASTED international conference on Database and applications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents an approach to produce generalization candidates for a concept hierarchy without the necessity of being an expert in the domain to be generalized and its application to the summarization of large descriptive data sets. Through the use of ontologies, a set of terms can be automatically generalized into the next abstract level in a concept hierarchy. A new approach for the extraction of minimally abstract generalizations of provided terms from ontologies, and for unsupervised construction of a fuzzy concept hierarchy for attribute-oriented purposes will be presented. The algorithm presented is a proof-of-concept type and it will be followed by future research.