Fast Mining of Spatial Frequent Wordset from Social Database

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an algorithm that extracts spatial frequent patterns to explain the relative characteristics of a specific location from the available social data. This paper proposes a spatial social data model which includes spatial social data, spatial support, spatial frequent patterns, spatial partition, and spatial clustering; these concepts are used for describing the exploration algorithm of spatial frequent patterns. With these defined concepts as the foundation, an SFP-tree structure that maintains not only the frequent words but also the frequent cells was proposed, and an SFP-growth algorithm that explores the frequent patterns on the basis of this SFP-tree was proposed.

published in Spatial Information Research, vol.25, pp. 271-280