Grouped ECOC conditional random fields for prediction of web user behavior

Yong Zhen Guo, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Laurence A.F. Park

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Abstract

Web page prefetching has shown to provide reduction inWeb access latency, but is highly dependent on the accuracy of the Web page prediction method. Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) with Error Correcting Output Coding (ECOC) have shown to provide highly accurate and efficient Web page prediction on large-size websites. However, the limited class information provided to the binary-label sub-CRFs in ECOC-CRFs will also lead to inferior accuracy when compared to the single multi-label CRFs. Although increasing the minimum Hamming distance of the ECOC matrix can help to improve the accuracy of ECOC-CRFs, it is still not an ideal method. In this paper, we introduce the grouped ECOC-CRFs that allow us to obtain a prediction accuracy closer to that of single multi-label CRFs by grouping the binary ECOC vectors. We show in our experiments that by using the grouping method, we can maintain the efficiency of the ECOC-CRFs while providing significant increase in Web page prediction accuracy over ECOC-CRFs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2009
Pages757-763
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2009 - Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: 27 Apr 200930 Apr 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5476 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2009
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityBangkok
Period27/04/0930/04/09

Keywords

  • Conditional random fields
  • Error correcting output coding
  • Grouping
  • Web page prediction

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