Customer segmentation and classification from blogs by using data mining: An example of voip phone

Cybernetics and Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 608-632

  Chen, Long Sheng ^a   Hsu, Chun Chin ^a   Chen, Mu Chen ^b  

^a CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Back propagation neural network; Blog; Data mining; Self organizing map; Sparse data; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; BACK-PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORK; BLOG; BLOG MINING; BLOG SEARCH; BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS; CUSTOMER SEGMENTATION; INSTANT MESSAGING; INTERNET APPLICATION; INTERNET USERS; MARKETING CHANNELS; SPARSE DATA; SUPERVISED LEARNING METHODS; VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL; VOIP PHONES; WEB MINING;

BACKPROPAGATION; BULLETIN BOARDS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; NEURAL NETWORKS; SEARCH ENGINES; SECURITY OF DATA; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TELEPHONE SETS; TORSIONAL STRESS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERNET;

EID: 70349271353     PISSN: 01969722     EISSN: 10876553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01969720903152593     Document Type: Article

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