• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.681-688
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• 2015

The k nearest neighbor (k-NN) graph construction is an important operation with many web-related applications, including collaborative filtering, similarity search, and many others in data mining and machine learning. Despite its many elegant properties, the brute force k-NN graph construction method has a computational complexity of $O(n^2)$, which is prohibitive for large scale data sets. Thus, (Key, Value)-based distributed framework, MapReduce, is gaining increasingly widespread use in Locality Sensitive Hashing which is efficient for high-dimension and sparse data. Based on the two-stage strategy, we engage the locality sensitive hashing technique to divide users into small subsets, and then calculate similarity between pairs in the small subsets using a brute force method on MapReduce. Specifically, generating a candidate group stage is important since brute-force calculation is performed in the following step. However, existing methods do not prevent large candidate groups. In this paper, we proposed an efficient algorithm for approximate k-NN graph construction by regrouping candidate groups. Experimental results show that our approach is more effective than existing methods in terms of graph accuracy and scan rate.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.327-332
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• 2015

Constructing a k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) graph is a primitive operation in the field of recommender systems, information retrieval, data mining and machine learning. Although there have been many algorithms proposed for constructing a k-NN graph, either the existing approaches cannot be used for various types of similarity measures, or the performance of the approaches is decreased as the number of nodes or dimensions increases. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for k-NN graph construction based on "balanced" canopy clustering. The experimental results show that irrespective of the number of nodes or dimensions, our algorithm is at least five times faster than the brute-force approach while retaining an accuracy of approximately 92%.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.110-114
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• 2010

We describe a new method for text categorization using TextRank algorithm. Text categorization is a problem that over one pre-defined categories are assigned to a text document. TextRank algorithm is a graph-based ranking algorithm. If we consider that each word is a vertex, and co-occurrence of two adjacent words is a edge, we can get a graph from a document. After that, we find important words using TextRank algorithm from the graph and make feature which are pairs of words which are each important word and a word adjacent to the important word. We use classifiers: SVM, Na$\ddot{i}$ve Bayesian classifier, Maximum Entropy Model, and k-NN classifier. We use non-cross-posted version of 20 Newsgroups data set. In consequence, we had an improved performance in whole classifiers, and the result tells that is a possibility of TextRank algorithm in text categorization.