Employing Latent Dirichlet Allocation for fraud detection in telecommunications

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1727-1734

  Xing, Dongshan ^a   Girolami, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data mining; Fraud detection; Latent Dirichlet Allocation; Telecommunications; User modelling

Indexed keywords

CALL TRAFFIC; FRAUD DETECTION; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; USER MODELING; USER PROFILE SIGNATURES;

DATA MINING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REAL TIME CONTROL; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 34447336373     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2007.04.015     Document Type: Article

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