AUTOMATED CLUSTERING OF RECORDS, BIASED BY SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION PROCESSING
First Claim
1. A method of targeting particular service users, wherein characteristics of the users are represented in a plurality of records of a data set, the method comprising:
- identifying records of the data set representing users who have exhibited particular desirable characteristics, based on supervised classification processing;
based on identification of the records, processing the records of the data set to indicate a bias for application in unsupervised clustering processing; and
clustering the records, processed to indicate a bias, using the unsupervised clustering process; and
targeting particular service users based on the result of the clustering step.
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Abstract
An unsupervised classification approach is improved by imposing some order into the treatment of the records and their attributes, which otherwise would be treated as random variables. A method is provided to identify particular attributes that are most associated with the “good” records within each of the plurality of groups of records within a data set. Based on a supervised scoring method, the records of the data set are processed to indicate their measure of “goodness”. There are various ways by which the records can be processed to indicate a bias during unsupervised clustering processing.
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33 Claims
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1. A method of targeting particular service users, wherein characteristics of the users are represented in a plurality of records of a data set, the method comprising:
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identifying records of the data set representing users who have exhibited particular desirable characteristics, based on supervised classification processing; based on identification of the records, processing the records of the data set to indicate a bias for application in unsupervised clustering processing; and clustering the records, processed to indicate a bias, using the unsupervised clustering process; and targeting particular service users based on the result of the clustering step. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer program product for targeting particular service users, wherein characteristics of the users are represented in a plurality of records of a data set, the computer program product comprising at least one computer-readable medium having computer program instructions stored therein which are operable to cause at least one computing device to:
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identify records of the data set representing users who have exhibited particular desirable characteristics, based on supervised classification processing; based on identification of the records, process the records of the data set to indicate a bias for application in unsupervised clustering processing; and cluster the records, processed to indicate a bias, using the unsupervised clustering process; and target particular service users based on the result of the clustering step. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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