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IMPROVED METHOD FOR PATTERN DISCOVERY IN TEXT MINING

Bharate Laxman1, D.Sujatha2
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Student, 2Assistant professor, Department of CSE, ATRI, Andhra Pradesh, India

laxmanbharate@gmail.com, sujatha_dandu@gmail.com

Abstract
Digital data in the form of text documents is rapidly growing. Analyzing such data manually is a tedious task. Data mining techniques
have been around to analyze such data and bring about interesting patterns. Many existing methods are based on term-based
approaches that cant deal with synonymy and polysemy. Moreover they lack the ability in using and updating the discovered patterns.
Zhong et al. proposed an effective pattern discovery technique. It discovers patterns and then computes specificities of patterns for
evaluating term weights as per their distribution in the discovered patterns. It also takes care of updating patterns that exhibit
ambiguity which is a feature known as pattern evolution. In this paper we implemented that technique and also built a prototype
application to test the efficiency of the technique. The empirical results revealed that the solution is very useful in text mining domain.

Keywords Text mining, pattern discovery, text classification, pattern evolving

---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------1. INTRODUCTION
Knowledge discovery has become an indispensable
phenomenon in recent years due to the rapid increase in digital
data. They have attracted lot of attention in academic and
scientific circles. Many applications in the real world need
such mining of data in order to discover trends or patterns.
These trends or patterns lead to business intelligence (BI).
Such BI helps in taking well informed decisions. Many data
mining techniques came into existence in the past ten years.
They include closed pattern mining, maximum pattern mining,
sequential pattern mining, item set mining, and association
rule mining. These techniques are developed for data mining
algorithms. They are capable of producing huge number of
patterns. However, how to use those patterns and how to
update them in future is the area that needs some more
research. Especially in the field of text mining, patterns are
discord from text documents. It is a challenging job to use
those patterns and also update them. Earlier term based
methods are provided by Information Retrieval (IR)
techniques. The term based methods are classified into rough
set models [1], SVM based models [2] and probability models
[3]. All the term based methods suffer from problems such as
synonymy and polysemy. When award has many meanings it
is known as polysemy. When multiple words have similar
meaning, it is called synonymy. Thus the discovered patterns
with term based techniques have semantic meaning and
answering the exact user query is difficult.
For this reason for many years people started believing that
phrase-based techniques are better than that of term based.
However, the experiments in the field of data mining [4], [5],
[6] have not been proved. The possible reasons include the
phrases have less properties pertaining to statistics when

compared with terms; frequency of occurrence is low; noisy

and redundant phrases are more [6].
Though there are some drawbacks, the sequential patterns
became promising alternatives to phrases [7], [8]. The reason
for this is that sequential patterns avail required statistics like
terms. Pattern Taxonomy Models (PTMs) [8], [9] came into
existence to overcome the drawbacks of phrase-based mining
approaches. Pattern based approaches became alternatives but
much improvements are not made to make them more
effective for text mining. With regard to effectiveness there are
two issues. They are misinterpretation and low frequency.
When patterns are less frequent, they cant be used for
decision making. When the terms or patterns are
misinterpreted, the result will not be reliable. Low frequency
cant have required support. If the support is decreased, the
results may not be useful for business decisions.
Over the last many years Information Retrieval (IR) is also
used to have many techniques that used features of text
documents. They are used to retrieve content from huge
amount of documents based on the terms and their weights.
The terms may have different weights based on the context as
well. There might be semantic meanings that are to be
considered in IR. Therefore it is not sufficient to only consider
weights of terms for document analysis or evaluation. In this
paper we implement a novel pattern discovery technique
proposed by Zhong et al. [10]. It first computes specificities of
the discovered patterns and then evaluates the weights of
terms based on the distribution. Thus it is capable of avoiding
misinterpretation problem. Negative training examples
influence is also considered by this in order to avoid lowfrequency problem. Moreover the ambiguous patterns are
updated. This phenomenon is known as pattern evaluation.

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Thus the proposed approach improves accuracy of the
discovered patterns.
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section II
provides review of literature. Section III provides details of
the proposed technique. Section IV presents implementation
details. Section V provides experimental results while section
VI concludes the paper.

2. PRIOR WORK

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3. PATTERN TAXONOMY MODEL

The pattern taxonomy model described briefly here refers to
Zhong et al. [10]. The PTM approach assumes that all text
documents are converted to paragraphs. Therefore any given
document is a set of paragraphs. By using is a relation it is
possible to structure documents into taxonomy. Consider the
following table.
Table 1: Frequent patterns and covering sets (excerpt from
[10])

Textual documents are increasingly added to the World Wide

Web and also the electronic databases of organizations. One of
the representations which are well known is known as bag of
words approach that makes use of keywords. Tf*idf weighting
scheme is presented in [11] for representing text. In [12]
entropy weighting and global IDF are used for text
representation in addition to DFIDF. For the approach bag of
words various schemes were developed for weighting [13],
[14], [15]. The drawback in the bag of words is that choosing
limited number of words is a problem thus it causes over
fitting [6]. To reduce number of features other approaches
came into existence. They include Odds ratio, Chi-Square,
Mutual Information, and Information Gain [4], [6]. Though
there are many representations, the choice of representation is
based on the requirement, the rules of natural language [6].
Some researchers used phrases instead of words. Unigram and
bigram combination is also used in the text categorization
process. Phrase based approach is explored in [16]. Data
mining techniques are also used as explored in [17]. There was
no significant improvement in text mining when phrases are
used. It suffered from lower frequency and misinterpretation
problems [18]. Some insights were provided on ontology
mining which is again term based [19], [20]. In [21] a
technique known as pattern evolution was introduced. In data
mining communities, pattern mining is extensively used for
number of years. Algorithms such as GST [22], SLPMiner
[23], SPADE [56] etc. are used for the purpose of data mining.
However, finding interesting patterns is still open to anyone to
research [25], [26]. Pattern mining is also used in text mining
domain. Frequently found items is used text mining for
various decisions making applications. Closed sequential
patterns are also explored in text mining [9]. In [10] a model
known as Pattern Taxonomy model is proposed in order to
improve the discovered patterns in text mining. In [27] a twostage model was developed. The two stages include pattern
based methods and term based methods. For text mining
Natural Language Processing concepts are used. Recently a
new model known as concept-based model came into
existence [28], [29]. Conceptual Ontology Graph is also
explored in order to use semantic knowledge in the discovery
of patterns. This model provides effective discrimination
between meaningful terms and important terms. In this paper
Pattern Taxonomy Model is used for text mining.

As can be seen in table 1, frequent patterns are shows in the

left column while the right column shows the documents in
which these patterns exist. This is the based to structure
pattern taxonomy. The constructed pattern taxonomy for the
given values in table 1 is as shown in fig. 1.

Fig. 1 Pattern taxonomy (excerpt from [10])

As can be seen in fig. 1, there are many terms which are part
of pattern taxonomy. This information is best used in text
mining in order to produce closed patterns. The performance
of text mining gets improved using this model. More details
and deduced equations of this model are as explored in [10].

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4. PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTAITON
The pattern discovery technique proposed by Zhong et al. [10]
has been implemented by us using Java programming
language. The environment used for the implementation
include a PC with 4GB RAM, Core 2 Dual processor.
Operating system used is Windows and the IDE is Net Beans.
Java SWING API is used to build GUI (Graphical User
Interface). The main UI of the application is as shown in fig.
2.

Fig. 4 Discovered patterns

Fig. 2 The main UI of the prototype

As seen in fig. 2 the application facilitates preprocessing
before actual discovery of patterns. The selected dataset is
shown in text area. Before proceeding further, the text needs to
be preprocessed for operations like removal of stop words and
stemming. On choosing preprocessing, the UI as shown in fig.
3 is rendered.

Fig 5 Shows terms in the discovered patterns

As can be seen in fig. 5, the terms for each discovered pattern
are presented. The pattern1 has terms such as t6, t7, t8 and t9.
This way the terms are shown for all discovered patterns.
Groups of terms involved in different patterns are extracted
and presented in fig. 6.

Fig. 3 UI showing preprocessing operations

As can be seen in fig. 3, there is provision for stop words
removal and stemming. These two are the fundamental preprocessing operations required before actually processing the
text documents. The PIM button helps to build a pattern
taxonomy model. The discovered patterns are shown in fig. 4.

Fig. 6 Distribution of Patterns and Terms

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As can be seen in fig. 6, the discovered patterns distribution is
shown. The terms are grouped according to the patterns to
which they belong to. As can be observed in fig. 6, the results
show the terms which do not belong to any patterns. Such
terms are pruned and the results are presented in fig. 7.

Fig. 7 Final results showing distribution of terms and

patterns
As can be seen in fig. 7, the results reveal the distribution of
terms and corresponding discovered patterns.

CONCLUSIONS
Data mining techniques have been around for long time. The
techniques used to discover knowledge include sequential
pattern mining, frequent item set mining, closed pattern
mining and maximum pattern mining. These data mining
techniques are not useful for text mining. This is due to lack of
high specificity of discovered patterns. Not all frequent
patterns discovered by mining algorithm are useful. Moreover
then can be misinterpreted to make the problem worse. To
overcome the problems of misinterpretation and low
frequency, we proposed an effective pattern discovery. Pattern
deploying and evolving are the two parts in the proposed
technique. The empirical results revealed that the proposed
technique is effective.

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