Many data mining techniques have been proposed for mining useful patterns in text documents. However, how to effectively use and update discovered patterns is still an open research issue, especially in the domain of text mining. Since most existing text mining methods adopted term-based approaches, they all suffer from the problems of polysemy and synonymy. Over the years, people have often held the hypothesis that pattern (or phrase)-based approaches should perform better than the term-based ones, but many experiments do not support this hypothesis. This paper presents an innovative and effective pattern discovery technique which includes the processes of pattern deploying and pattern evolving, to improve the effectiveness of using and updating discovered patterns for finding relevant and interesting information. Substantial experiments on RCV1 data collection and TREC topics demonstrate that the proposed solution achieves encouraging performance.

The aim of this study is to recognize human emotions by electroencephalographic (EEG) signals. The innovation of our research methods involves two aspects: First, we integrate the spatial characteristics, frequency domain, and temporal characteristics of the EEG signals, and map them to a two-dimensional image. With these images, we build a series of EEG Multidimensional Feature Image (EEG MFI) sequences to represent the emotion variation with EEG signals. Second, we construct a hybrid deep neural network to deal with the EEG MFI sequences to recognize human emotional states where the hybrid deep neural network combined the Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) and Long Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). Empirical research is carried out with the open-source dataset DEAP (a Dataset for Emotion Analysis using EEG, Physiological, and video signals) using our method, and the results demonstrate the significant improvements over current state-of-the-art approaches in this field. The average emotion classification accuracy of each subject with CLRNN (the hybrid neural networks that we proposed in this study) is 75.21%.

Peculiarity rules are a new class of rules which can be discovered by searching relevance among a relatively small number of peculiar data. Peculiarity oriented mining in multiple data sources is different from, and complementary to, existing approaches for discovering new, surprising, and interesting patterns hidden in data. A theoretical framework for peculiarity oriented mining is presented. Within the proposed framework, we give a formal interpretation and comparison of three classes of rules, namely, association rules, exception rules, and peculiarity rules, as well as describe how to mine interesting peculiarity rules in multiple databases.

Neuron morphology is recognized as a key determinant of cell type, yet the quantitative profiling of a mammalian neuron’s complete three-dimensional (3-D) morphology remains arduous when the neuron has complex arborization and long projection. Whole-brain reconstruction of neuron morphology is even more challenging as it involves processing tens of teravoxels of imaging data. Validating such reconstructions is extremely laborious. We develop TeraVR, an open-source virtual reality annotation system, to address these challenges. TeraVR integrates immersive and collaborative 3-D visualization, interaction, and hierarchical streaming of teravoxel-scale images. Using TeraVR, we have produced precise 3-D full morphology of long-projecting neurons in whole mouse brains and developed a collaborative workflow for highly accurate neuronal reconstruction.