Classification Rule Mining Supported by Ontology for Discrimination Discovery

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TitleClassification Rule Mining Supported by Ontology for Discrimination Discovery
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsLuong, BThanh, Ruggieri, S, Turini, F
Conference NameData Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on
PublisherIEEE
AbstractDiscrimination discovery from data consists of designing data mining methods for the actual discovery of discriminatory situations and practices hidden in a large amount of historical decision records. Approaches based on classification rule mining consider items at a flat concept level, with no exploitation of background knowledge on the hierarchical and inter-relational structure of domains. On the other hand, ontologies are a widespread and ever increasing means for expressing such a knowledge. In this paper, we propose a framework for discrimination discovery from ontologies, where contexts of prima-facie evidence of discrimination are summarized in the form of generalized classification rules at different levels of abstraction. Throughout the paper, we adopt a motivating and intriguing case study based on discriminatory tariffs applied by the U. S. Harmonized Tariff Schedules on imported goods.
DOI10.1109/ICDMW.2016.0128