Frequent pattern mining on XML documents
Sangeetha Kutty, Richi Nayak · QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) · 2008
With the emergence of XML standardization, XML documents have been widely used and accepted in almost all the major industries. As a result of the widespread usage, it has been considered essential to not only store these XML documents but also to mine them to discover useful information from them. One of the very popular techniques to mine XML documents is the frequent pattern mining, which has huge potential in varied domains such as bio-informatics, network analysis. This chapter presents some of the existing mining techniques to discover frequent patterns from XML documents. It also covers the applications and addresses the major issues in mining XML documents.