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dc.contributor.authorIkasari, Novita
dc.contributor.authorHadzic, Fedja
dc.contributor.authorDillon, Tharam
dc.contributor.editorAndrea Tagarelli
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:13:12Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:13:12Z
dc.date.created2012-02-21T20:00:51Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationIkasari, Novita and Hadzic, Fedja and Dillon, Tharam S. 2012. Incorporating qualitative information for credit risk assessment through frequent subtree mining for XML, in Andrea Tagarelli (ed), XML data mining: models, methods, and applications. pp. 467-503. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29489
dc.description.abstract

Credit risk assessment has been one of the most appealing topics in banking and finance studies, attracting both scholars’ and practitioners’ attention for some time. Following the success of the Grameen Bank, works on credit risk, in particular for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), have become essential. The distinctive character of SMEs requires a method that takes into account quantitative and qualitative information for loan granting decision purposes. In this chapter, we first provide a survey of existing credit risk assessment methods, which shows a current gap in the existing research in regards to taking qualitative information into account during the data mining process. To address this shortcoming, we propose a framework that utilizes an XML-based template to capture both qualitative and quantitative information in this domain. By representing this information in a domain-oriented way, the potential knowledge that can be discovered for evidence-based decision support will be maximized. An XML document can be effectively represented as a rooted ordered labelled tree and a number of tree mining methods exist that enable the efficient discovery of associations among tree-structured data objects, taking both the content and structure into account. The guidelines for correct and effective application of such methods are provided in order to gain detailed insight into the information governing the decision making process. We have obtained a number of textual reports from the banks regarding the information collected from SMEs during the credit application/evaluation process. These are used as the basis for generating a synthetic XML database that partially reflects real-world scenarios. A tree mining method is applied to this data to demonstrate the potential of the proposed method for credit risk assessment.

dc.publisherIGI Global
dc.titleIncorporating qualitative information for credit risk assessment through frequent subtree mining for XML
dc.typeBook Chapter
dcterms.source.startPage467
dcterms.source.endPage503
dcterms.source.titleXML data mining: models, methods, and applications
dcterms.source.isbn9781613503560
dcterms.source.placeUSA
dcterms.source.chapter19
curtin.departmentDigital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute (DEBII)
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