On Objective Measures of Rule Surprisingness

Most of the literature argues that surprisingness is an inherently subjective aspect of the discovered knowledge, which cannot be measured in objective terms. This paper departs from this view, and it has a twofold goal: (1) showing that it is indeed possible to define objective (rather than subjective) measures of discovered rule surprisingness; (2) proposing new ideas and methods for defining objective rule surprisingness measures.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: PKDD
• Authors: Alex Alves Freitas
• Keywords: Data Mining, Objective Terms, PKDD 1998, Rule Surprisingness, Subjective Aspect