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This paper uses an optimization approach to address the problem of conceptual clustering. The aim of AGAPE, which is based on the tabu-search meta-heuristic using split, merge and a special “k-means” move, is to extract concepts by optimizing a global quality function. It is deterministic and uses no a priori knowledge about the number of clusters. Experiments carried out in topic extraction show very promising results on both artificial and real datasets.
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Velcin, J., Ganascia, JG. (2007). Topic Extraction with AGAPE. In: Alhajj, R., Gao, H., Li, J., Li, X., Zaïane, O.R. (eds) Advanced Data Mining and Applications. ADMA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4632. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73871-8_35
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