Journal
DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 446-471Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10618-008-0122-1
Keywords
Behavioral units and rules; N-gram models; Learning from positive data
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [18500109]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18500109] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We propose an efficient automata-based approach to extract behavioral units and rules from continuous sequential data of animal behavior. By introducing novel extensions, we integrate two elemental methods-the N-gram model and Angluin's machine learning algorithm into an ethological data mining framework. This allows us to obtain the minimized automaton-representation of behavioral rules that accept (or generate) the smallest set of possible behavioral patterns from sequential data of animal behavior. With this method, we demonstrate how the ethological data mining works using real birdsong data; we use the Bengalese finch song and perform experimental evaluations of this method using artificial birdsong data generated by a computer program. These results suggest that our ethological data mining works effectively even for noisy behavioral data by appropriately setting the parameters that we introduce. In addition, we demonstrate a case study using the Bengalese finch song, showing that our method successfully grasps the core structure of the singing behavior such as loops and branches.
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