navigation and browsing mechanisms by organizing large amounts of information
into a small number of meaningful clusters. Standard partitional or agglomerative
clustering methods efficiently compute results to this end.
However, the bag of words representation used for these clustering methods is often
unsatisfactory as it ignores relationships between important terms that do not
co-occur literally. Also, it is mostly left to the user to find out why a particular partitioning
has been achieved, because it is only specified extensionally. In order to
deal with the two problems, we integrate background knowledge into the process of
clustering text documents.
First, we preprocess the texts, enriching their representations by background knowledge
provided in a core ontology — in our application Wordnet. Then, we cluster
the documents by a partitional algorithm. Our experimental evaluation on Reuters
newsfeeds compares clustering results with pre-categorizations of news. In the experiments,
improvements of results by background knowledge compared to the baseline
can be shown for many interesting tasks.
Second, the clustering partitions the large number of documents to a relatively small
number of clusters, which may then be analyzed by conceptual clustering. In our approach,
we applied Formal Concept Analysis. Conceptual clustering techniques are
known to be too slow for directly clustering several hundreds of documents, but they
give an intensional account of cluster results. They allow for a concise description
of commonalities and distinctions of different clusters. With background knowledge
they even find abstractions like “food” (vs. specializations like “beef” or “corn”).
Thus, in our approach, partitional clustering reduces first the size of the problem
such that it becomes tractable for conceptual clustering, which then facilitates the
understanding of the results. ER - TY - CONF AU - Stumme, Gerd A2 - Bock, H.-H. A2 - Polasek, W. T1 - Attribute Exploration with Background Implications and Exceptions T2 - Data Analysis and Information Systems. Statistical and Conceptual approaches. Proc. GfKl'95. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization 7 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg PY - 1996/ M2 - VL - IS - SP - 457 EP - 469 UR - http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/stumme/papers/1995/P1781-GfKl95.pdf M3 - KW - 1996 KW - acquisition KW - analysis KW - attribute KW - background KW - concept KW - exploration KW - fca KW - formal KW - implications KW - knowledge KW - lattices KW - myown L1 - SN - N1 - Publications of Gerd Stumme N1 - AB - ER -