Building Hierarchical Classifiers Using Class Proximity

Summary: Proposes class proximity to measure closeness in hierarchical classification, replacing local-split models with a global classifier. Employs generalized association rules as the feature space to encode relations for proximity-aware flat classification. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h1af2cc0d9f73e31f
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 6.347804e-05
Overall Rank: 4,927 | 66.89%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ke Wang (National University of Singapore)
2. Senqiang Zhou (National University of Singapore)
3. Shiang Chen Liew (National University of Singapore)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wang_vldb99,
        title = {{Building Hierarchical Classifiers Using Class Proximity}},
        author = {Wang, Ke and Zhou, Senqiang and Liew, Shiang Chen},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '99},
        pages = {363--374},
        year = {1999}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,609	TraClass: Trajectory Classification Using Hierarchical Region-Based and Trajectory-Based Clustering	2008	VLDB	8.2248763e-05
13,178	Mining Frequent Itemsets Using Support Constraints	2000	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13	Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases	1993	SIGMOD	0.00064391979
29	Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules	1994	VLDB	0.00051189413
467	Discovery of Multiple-Level Association Rules from Large Databases	1995	VLDB	0.00017758586
476	Mining Generalized Association Rules	1995	VLDB	0.00017664233
2,677	Enhanced hypertext categorization using hyperlinks	1998	SIGMOD	8.142507e-05
5,263	Using taxonomy, discriminants, and signatures for navigating in text databases	1997	VLDB	6.2032276e-05

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