出版社:The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
摘要:This paper shows a new method of extracting important words from newspaper articles based on time-sequence information. This word extraction method plays an important role in event sequence mining. TF-IDF is a well-known method to rank word's importance in a document. However, the TF-IDF method never consider the time information embedded in sequential textual data, which is peculiar to newspapers. In this research, we will propose a new word-extraction method, called the TF-IDayF method, which considers time-sequence information, and can extract important/characteristic words expressing sequential events. The TF-IDayF method never use so-called burst phenomenon of topic word occurrences, which has been studied by lots of researchers. The TF-IDayF method is quite simple, but effective and easy to compute in sequential textual mining. We evaluate the proposed method from three points of view, i.e., a semantic viewpoint, a statistical one and a data mining viewpoint through several experiments.