Supervised pretreatments are useful for supervised clustering
Résumé
Over the last years, researchers focus their attention on a new approach that combines the main characteristics of both traditional clustering and supervised classification tasks. This new approach is called by supervised clustering. Motivated by the importance of pre-processing approaches in a traditional clustering context, we suppose that a supervised pre-processing step could help traditional clustering to obtain the same supervised clustering tacks. This paper conducts experiments which show that the traditional clustering is competitive comparing to existing supervised clustering algorithms if a supervised pre-processing step is used.