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MLDM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Grouping Method for Categorical Attributes Having Very Large Number of Values
In supervised machine learning, the partitioning of the values (also called grouping) of a categorical attribute aims at constructing a new synthetic attribute which keeps the info...
Marc Boullé
ICDE
1999
IEEE
183views Database» more  ICDE 1999»
14 years 6 months ago
ROCK: A Robust Clustering Algorithm for Categorical Attributes
Clustering, in data mining, is useful to discover distribution patterns in the underlying data. Clustering algorithms usually employ a distance metric based (e.g., euclidean) simi...
Sudipto Guha, Rajeev Rastogi, Kyuseok Shim
IDA
2009
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Context-Based Distance Learning for Categorical Data Clustering
Abstract. Clustering data described by categorical attributes is a challenging task in data mining applications. Unlike numerical attributes, it is difficult to define a distance b...
Dino Ienco, Ruggero G. Pensa, Rosa Meo
ICDM
2008
IEEE
118views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Extension of Partitional Clustering Methods for Handling Mixed Data
Clustering is an active research topic in data mining and different methods have been proposed in the literature. Most of these methods are based on the use of a distance measure ...
Yosr Naïja, Salem Chakhar, Kaouthar Blibech, ...