Autor según el artículo: Rodriguez-Garcia, Mercedes; Batet, Montserrat; Sanchez, David
Departamento: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
Autor/es de la URV: Batet Sanromà, Montserrat / Sánchez Ruenes, David
Palabras clave: Semantics Ontologies Nominal data Noise addition Medical ontologies
Resumen: Noise addition is a data distortion technique widely used in data intensive applications. For example, in machine learning tasks it helps to reduce overfitting, whereas in data privacy protection it adds uncertainty to personally identifiable information. Yet, due to its mathematical operating principle, noise addition is a method mainly intended for continuous numerical data. In fact, despite the large amount of nominal data that are being currently compiled and used in data analysis, only a few alternative techniques have been proposed to distort nominal data in a similar way as standard noise addition does for numerical data. Furthermore, all these alternative methods rely on the distribution of the data rather than on the semantics of nominal values, which negatively affects the utility of the distorted outcomes. To tackle this issue, in this paper we present a semantically-grounded alternative to numerical noise suitable for nominal data, which we name semantic noise. By means of semantic noise, and by exploiting structured knowledge sources such as ontologies, we are able to distort nominal data while preserving better their semantics and thus, their analytical utility. To that end, we provide semantically and mathematically coherent versions of the statistical operators required in the noise addition process, which include the difference, the mean, the variance and the covariance. Then, we propose semantic noise addition algorithms that cope with the finite, discrete and non-ordinal nature of nominal data. The proposed algorithms cover both uncorrelated noise addition, which is suited to independent attributes, and correlated noise addition, which can cope with multivariate datasets with dependent attributes. Empirical results show that our proposals offer general and configurable mechanisms to distort nominal data while preserving data semantics better than baseline methods based only on the distribution of the data.
Áreas temáticas: Software Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Management information systems Interdisciplinar Information systems and management Información y documentación Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Economia Computer science, artificial intelligence Ciencias sociales Ciências biológicas i Ciência da computação Astronomia / física Artificial intelligence Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Direcció de correo del autor: montserrat.batet@urv.cat david.sanchez@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-8174-7592 0000-0001-7275-7887
Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-10-12
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Knowledge-Based Systems. 122 103-118
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Rodriguez-Garcia, Mercedes; Batet, Montserrat; Sanchez, David (2017). A semantic framework for noise addition with nominal data. Knowledge-Based Systems, 122(), 103-118. DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2017.01.032
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2017
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
Repositori URV