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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Hsu, Chung-Chiana; * | Tsao, Wei-Cyuna | Chang, Arthura | Chang, Chuan-Yub
Affiliations: [a] Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliu, Yunlin, Taiwan | [b] Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliu, Yunlin, Taiwan
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Chung-Chian Hsu, Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliu, Yunlin, Taiwan. E-mail: hsucc@yuntech.edu.tw.
Abstract: Most of real-world datasets are of mixed type including both numeric and categorical attributes. Unlike numbers, operations on categorical values are limited, and the degree of similarity between distinct values cannot be measured directly. In order to properly analyze mixed-type data, dedicated methods to handle categorical values in the datasets are needed. The limitation of most existing methods is lack of appropriate numeric representations of categorical values. Consequently, some of analysis algorithms cannot be applied. In this paper, we address this deficiency by transforming categorical values to their numeric representation so as to facilitate various analyses of mixed-type data. In particular, the proposed transformation method preserves semantics of categorical values with respect to the other values in the dataset, resulting in better performance on data analyses including classification and clustering. The proposed method is verified and compared with other methods on extensive real-world datasets.
Keywords: Word embedding, categorical data, mixed-type data, visualized data analysis
DOI: 10.3233/IDA-205453
Journal: Intelligent Data Analysis, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1349-1368, 2021
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