Mining Compressed Sequential Patterns.

Current sequential pattern mining algorithms often produce a large number of patterns. It is difficult for a user to explore in so many patterns and get a global view of the patterns and the underlying data. In this paper, we examine the problem of how to compress a set of sequential patterns using only K SP-Features(Sequential Pattern Features). A novel similarity measure is proposed for clustering SP-Features and an effective SP-Feature combination method is designed. We also present an efficient algorithm, called CSP(Compressing Sequential Patterns) to mine compressed sequential patterns based on the hierarchical clustering framework. A thorough experimental study with both real and synthetic datasets shows that CSP can compress sequential patterns effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]