XML Clustering By Principal Component Analysis
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
12-1-2004
Abstract
XML is increasingly important in data exchange and information management. A large amount of efforts have been spent in developing efficient techniques for storing, querying, indexing and accessing XML documents. In this paper we propose a new approach to clustering XML data. In contrast to previous work, which focused on documents defined by different DTDs, the proposed method works for documents with the same DTD. Our approach is to extract features from documents, modeled by ordered labeled trees, and transform the documents to vectors in a high-dimensional Euclidean space based on the occurrences of the features in the documents. We then reduce the dimensionality of the vectors by principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster the vectors in the reduced dimensional space. The PCA enables one to identify vectors with co-occurrent features, thereby enhancing the accuracy of the clustering. Experimental results based on documents obtained from Wisconsin's XML data bank show the effectiveness and good performance of the proposed techniques.
DOI
10.1109/ICTAI.2004.122
Montclair State University Digital Commons Citation
Liu, Jianghui; Wang, Jason T.L.; Hsu, Wynne; and Herbert, Katherine, "XML Clustering By Principal Component Analysis" (2004). Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 633.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/compusci-facpubs/633