Analysing the Needs of Homeless People Using Feature Selection and Mining Association Rules
Author
Alcalde-Llergo, José M.
García-Martínez, Carlos
Vaquero Abellán, Manuel
Aparicio Martínez, Pilar
Yeguas-Bolívar, Enrique
Publisher
IEEEDate
2022Subject
AI for inclusivityFeature selection
Association rules
Homelessness
Data collection
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Homelessness is a social and health problem with great repercussions in Europe. Many non-governmental organisations help homeless people by collecting and analysing large amounts of information about them. However, these tasks are not always easy to perform, and hinder other of the organisations duties. The SINTECH project was created to tackle this issue proposing two different tools: a mobile application to quickly and easily collect data; and a software based on artificial intelligence which obtains interesting information from the collected data. The first one has been distributed to some Spanish organisations which are using it to conduct surveys of homeless people. The second tool implements different feature selection and association rules mining methods. These artificial intelligence techniques have allowed us to identify the most relevant features and some interesting association rules from previously collected homeless data.