Re: [UAI] Feature selection for clustering

2005-05-27 Thread Monika Ray
Hello, The previous email, mentioned PCA and ICA and their kernel counter parts. Like it sauid, its a good place to start from. But their effectiveness highly depends on how noisy your dataset is and how large is the number of features. SVM-RFE by Isabelle Guyon is known to be very good. Another

RE: [UAI] Feature selection for clustering

2005-05-26 Thread George Paliouras
Hello, I think that the problem is too complex and open to expect to find a tool that does the job. The question of what constitutes an interesting/relevant/useful feature for clustering is hard to answer. One approach is to go for feature extraction (dimensionality reduction) rather than feature

Re: [UAI] Feature selection for clustering

2005-05-26 Thread Felix Goldberg
Well, you can use PCA which is a standard tool. (Of course, depending on your problem and the nature and quality of the features the results may range from great to catastrophic). In any case, that's what I'd try first. Another option would be ICA but you need to satisfy some additional statisti