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Compression and data mining

  • University of Massachusetts Boston

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Abstract

Data compression plays an important role in data mining in assessing the minability of data and a modality of evaluating similarities between complex objects. We discuss various mining applications ranging from compressibility of strings of symbols and of languages, graph compressibility, compression of market basket data. Also, we examine the role of compression in computing similarity in text corpora and we propose a novel approach for assessing the quality of text summarization.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)677-684
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Communications
Volume10
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1 2015

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Compression ratio
  • Lemmatizing
  • Lossless compression
  • Stemming
  • Thue-Morse sequence

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