Techniques for being able to automatically identify acronym patterns are very important for enhancing a multitude of applications that rely upon search. This task is challenging, d...
This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
Sequential pattern mining first proposed by Agrawal and Srikant has received intensive research due to its wide range applicability in many real-life domains. Various improvements...
An ideal outcome of pattern mining is a small set of informative patterns, containing no redundancy or noise, that identifies the key structure of the data at hand. Standard freq...
Assessing the quality of discovered results is an important open problem in data mining. Such assessment is particularly vital when mining itemsets, since commonly many of the disc...