Learning unlabeled data is a significant challenge that needs to han-dle complicated relationships between nominal values and attributes.Increas-ingly,recent research on learning value relations within and between att...Learning unlabeled data is a significant challenge that needs to han-dle complicated relationships between nominal values and attributes.Increas-ingly,recent research on learning value relations within and between attributes has shown significant improvement in clustering and outlier detection,etc.However,typical existing work relies on learning pairwise value relations but weakens or overlooks the direct couplings between multiple attributes.This paper thus proposes two novel and flexible multi-attribute couplings-based distance(MCD)metrics,which learn the multi-attribute couplings and their strengths in nominal data based on information theories:self-information,entropy,and mutual information,for measuring both numerical and nominal distances.MCD enables the application of numerical and nominal clustering methods on nominal data and quantifies the influence of involving and filtering multi-attribute couplings on distance learning and clustering perfor-mance.Substantial experiments evidence the above conclusions on 15 data sets against seven state-of-the-art distance measures with various feature selection methods for both numerical and nominal clustering.展开更多
Statistics is a powerful tool for data measurement. Statistical techniques properly planned and executed give meaning to meaningless data. The difficulty some practitioners encounter hinges on the fact that though the...Statistics is a powerful tool for data measurement. Statistical techniques properly planned and executed give meaning to meaningless data. The difficulty some practitioners encounter hinges on the fact that though there are numerous statistical methods available for use in analysis, the extent of their understanding and ease of using these tools for analysis is limited. This study has twofold purpose: firstly, literature on categorical data commonly used in research w</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">as</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> reviewed</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">;</span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> next, we reported the results of a survey we designed and executed. Categorical data was collected via questionnaire and analyzed to serve as a backbone of the robustness of categorical data. Several conjec</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">tures about the independence of the socio-economic variables and e-commence</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> were tested. Some of the factors influencing patronage of e-commerce were </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">identified. It is clear from the literature that as one’s academic qualification</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> improves</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">, </span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">there is an associated improvement in their preference for e-commerce, but the results revealed otherwise. Size of family was found to influence e-commerce. Both income and social status positively affected pa</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">tronage in e-commerce. Gender also appeared to affect patronage in e-commerce</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. 62.3% of staff had patronized e-commerce</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> This shows that e-commerce patronage was gradually increasing. It is therefore our considered view that policy documents regulating and monitoring the use of e-commerce be developed to increase e-commerce participation across the globe</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">It is also recommended that the bottlenecks which obstruct patronage in e-commence be addressed so that a lot more staff will develop a positive attitude towards e-commerce.展开更多
This paper presents the semantic analysis of queries written in natural language (French) and dedicated to the object oriented data bases. The studied queries include one or two nominal groups (NG) articulating around...This paper presents the semantic analysis of queries written in natural language (French) and dedicated to the object oriented data bases. The studied queries include one or two nominal groups (NG) articulating around a verb. A NG consists of one or several keywords (application dependent noun or value). Simple semantic filters are defined for identifying these keywords which can be of semantic value: class, simple attribute, composed attribute, key value or not key value. Coherence rules and coherence constraints are introduced, to check the validity of the co-occurrence of two consecutive nouns in complex NG. If a query is constituted of a single NG, no further analysis is required. Otherwise, if a query covers two valid NG, it is a subject of studying the semantic coherence of the verb and both NG which are attached to it.展开更多
基金funded by the MOE(Ministry of Education in China)Project of Humanities and Social Sciences(Project Number:18YJC870006)from China.
文摘Learning unlabeled data is a significant challenge that needs to han-dle complicated relationships between nominal values and attributes.Increas-ingly,recent research on learning value relations within and between attributes has shown significant improvement in clustering and outlier detection,etc.However,typical existing work relies on learning pairwise value relations but weakens or overlooks the direct couplings between multiple attributes.This paper thus proposes two novel and flexible multi-attribute couplings-based distance(MCD)metrics,which learn the multi-attribute couplings and their strengths in nominal data based on information theories:self-information,entropy,and mutual information,for measuring both numerical and nominal distances.MCD enables the application of numerical and nominal clustering methods on nominal data and quantifies the influence of involving and filtering multi-attribute couplings on distance learning and clustering perfor-mance.Substantial experiments evidence the above conclusions on 15 data sets against seven state-of-the-art distance measures with various feature selection methods for both numerical and nominal clustering.
文摘Statistics is a powerful tool for data measurement. Statistical techniques properly planned and executed give meaning to meaningless data. The difficulty some practitioners encounter hinges on the fact that though there are numerous statistical methods available for use in analysis, the extent of their understanding and ease of using these tools for analysis is limited. This study has twofold purpose: firstly, literature on categorical data commonly used in research w</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">as</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> reviewed</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">;</span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> next, we reported the results of a survey we designed and executed. Categorical data was collected via questionnaire and analyzed to serve as a backbone of the robustness of categorical data. Several conjec</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">tures about the independence of the socio-economic variables and e-commence</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> were tested. Some of the factors influencing patronage of e-commerce were </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">identified. It is clear from the literature that as one’s academic qualification</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> improves</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">, </span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">there is an associated improvement in their preference for e-commerce, but the results revealed otherwise. Size of family was found to influence e-commerce. Both income and social status positively affected pa</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">tronage in e-commerce. Gender also appeared to affect patronage in e-commerce</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. 62.3% of staff had patronized e-commerce</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> This shows that e-commerce patronage was gradually increasing. It is therefore our considered view that policy documents regulating and monitoring the use of e-commerce be developed to increase e-commerce participation across the globe</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">It is also recommended that the bottlenecks which obstruct patronage in e-commence be addressed so that a lot more staff will develop a positive attitude towards e-commerce.
文摘This paper presents the semantic analysis of queries written in natural language (French) and dedicated to the object oriented data bases. The studied queries include one or two nominal groups (NG) articulating around a verb. A NG consists of one or several keywords (application dependent noun or value). Simple semantic filters are defined for identifying these keywords which can be of semantic value: class, simple attribute, composed attribute, key value or not key value. Coherence rules and coherence constraints are introduced, to check the validity of the co-occurrence of two consecutive nouns in complex NG. If a query is constituted of a single NG, no further analysis is required. Otherwise, if a query covers two valid NG, it is a subject of studying the semantic coherence of the verb and both NG which are attached to it.
