Fondazione Ugo Bordoni

Information mining at FUBInformation mining at FUB

Claudio CarpinetoClaudio Carpineto

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Information Mining area at FUB: who we are

ResearchersGianni AmatiAndrea BernardiniClaudio Carpineto (head)Raffaele NicolussiGianni Romano

PhD studentsGiuseppe AmodeoCarla Michini

Scholarship holdersEdgardo AmbrosiMassimiliano D’AmicoGiovanni Stilo

Master thesis studentRaffaella Toscano

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Main scientific achievements

Concept Data Analysis book (2004)

Excellent results atTREC and CLEFsince 1999

New probabilistic ranking methods

Information retrieval and mining with CONCEPT LATTICES

DEVIATIONFROMRANDOMNESS

INFORMATIONTHEORETICQUERYEXPANSION

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Developments of Terrier, an open source search engine(in collaboration with University of Glasgow and Matrixware)

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Intelligent web search with

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Keyphrase-based Search Results Clustering (1) http://keysrc.fub.it

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Keyphrase-based Search Results Clustering (2) http://keysrc.fub.it

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KeySRC on iPhone

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Data mining for CRM (sales intelligence)

• Churn • Appetency • Up-selling• ……

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Data mining in theory

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Data mining in practice

• High data dimensionality (millions ofrecords, tens of thousands of attributes)

• Missing and noisy values

• Different value scales

• Different value ranges in training and test

• Unbalanced data set

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Thank you

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Thank you