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Hassan I Abdalla1, Ali A Amer2

  • 1College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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A new Boolean logic algebra basics similarity measure (BLAB-SM) offers efficient and effective text clustering and classification. This novel approach outperforms existing methods in speed and accuracy for information retrieval tasks.

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Area of Science:

  • Computer Science
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Similarity measures are crucial for text clustering and classification in Information Retrieval (IR), Data Mining (DM), and Machine Learning (ML).
  • Existing similarity measures are often complex and inefficient, despite their importance in algorithm performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel, effective, and efficient similarity measure with a simplistic design for text-based applications.
  • To introduce the Boolean Logic Algebra Basics Similarity Measure (BLAB-SM) for improved accuracy and runtime.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the BLAB-SM based on Boolean logic algebra principles.
  • Utilized the term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) schema for text representation.
  • Evaluated BLAB-SM using K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and K-means clustering algorithms.
  • Compared BLAB-SM against seven existing similarity measures on Reuters-21 and Web-KB datasets.

Main Results:

  • BLAB-SM demonstrated superior efficiency and effectiveness compared to state-of-the-art similarity measures.
  • The proposed measure achieved high accuracy at a faster runtime.
  • Experimental results confirmed BLAB-SM's advantage on both classification and clustering tasks.

Conclusions:

  • BLAB-SM is a highly effective and efficient similarity measure for text-based applications.
  • The simplistic design of BLAB-SM leads to significant performance improvements over existing methods.
  • This work contributes a valuable tool for enhancing DM and ML algorithms in IR.