Tag Archives: pattern mining

Discovering hidden patterns in texts using SPMF

Posted on 2016-09-17 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This tutorial will explain how to analyze text documents to discover complex and hidden relationships between words.  We will illustrate this with a Sherlock Holmes novel. Moreover we will explain how hidden patterns in text can be used to recognize the author of a … Continue reading →

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News about SPMF

Posted on 2016-02-03 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Some quick news about the SPMF project. First, this month I have made a few updates to SPMF.  Two new algorithms have been added: USpan (for high-utility sequential pattern mining) and FCHM (for correlated high utility itemset mining). Moreover, I have fixed … Continue reading →

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Interview with the SPMF library founder

Posted on 2015-10-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will just write a short blog post to let you know that I was recently interviewed on Rahaman’s blog.  The interview talks about various topics such as (1) why creating the SPMF data mining library, (2) why choosing to work in … Continue reading →

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200,000 visitors on the SPMF website!

Posted on 2015-09-29 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will just write a short blog post to mention that the SPMF open-source data mining library has recently passed the milestone of 200,000 visitors.  This is possible thanks to the support of all users of SPMF, and the contributors … Continue reading →

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New version of SPMF Java open-source data mining library (0.95)

Posted on 2014-02-28 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I write a post to announce a new version of the SPMF Java open-source data mining library.  It is SPMF version 0.95 and it is a major revision. It offers 11 new  data mining algorithms for various data mining … Continue reading →

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An introduction to frequent pattern mining

Posted on 2013-10-13 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will give a brief overview of an important subfield of data mining that is  called pattern mining.  Pattern mining consists of using/developing data mining algorithms to discover interesting,  unexpected and useful patterns in databases. Pattern … Continue reading →

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