Automatic taxonomy extraction from bipartite graphs

Tobias Kötter, Stephan Günnemann, Michael R. Berthold, Christos Faloutsos

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Abstract

Given a large bipartite graph that represents objects and their properties, how can we automatically extract semantic information that provides an overview of the data and - at the same time - enables us to drill down to specific parts for an in-depth analysis? In this work, we propose extracting a taxonomy that models the relation between the properties via an is a hierarchy. The extracted taxonomy arranges the properties from general to specific providing different levels of abstraction. Our proposed method has the following desirable properties: (a) it requires no user-defined parameters, by exploiting the principle of minimum description length, (b) it is effective, by utilizing the inheritance of objects when representing the hierarchy, and (c) it is scalable, being linear in the number of edges. We demonstrate the effectiveness and scalability of our method on a broad spectrum of real, publicly available graphs from drug-property graphs to social networks with up to 22 million vertices and 286 million edges.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2015
EditorsCharu Aggarwal, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Alexander Tuzhilin, Hui Xiong, Xindong Wu
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages221-230
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781467395038
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Jan 2016
Event15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2015 - Atlantic City, United States
Duration: 14 Nov 201517 Nov 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM
Volume2016-January
ISSN (Print)1550-4786

Conference

Conference15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlantic City
Period14/11/1517/11/15

Keywords

  • Graphs
  • MDL
  • Taxonomies

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