Knowledge Acquisition Via Incremental Conceptual Clustering

作者:Douglas H. Fisher

摘要

Conceptual clustering is an important way of summarizing and explaining data. However, the recent formulation of this paradigm has allowed little exploration of conceptual clustering as a means of improving performance. Furthermore, previous work in conceptual clustering has not explicitly dealt with constraints imposed by real world environments. This article presents COBWEB, a conceptual clustering system that organizes data so as to maximize inference ability. Additionally, COBWEB is incremental and computationally economical, and thus can be flexibly applied in a variety of domains.

论文关键词:Conceptual clustering, concept formation, incremental learning, inference, hill climbing

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论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022852608280