Clustering is an important unsupervised analysis technique for big data mining. It finds its application in several domains including biomedical documents of the MEDLINE database. Document clustering algorithms based on metaheuristics is an active research area. However, these algorithms suffer from the problems of getting trapped in local optima, need many parameters to adjust, and the documents should be indexed by a high dimensionality matrix using the traditional vector space model. In order to overcome these limitations, in this paper a new documents clustering algorithm (ASOS-LSI) with no parameters is proposed. It is based on the recent symbiotic organisms search metaheuristic (SOS) and enhanced by an acceleration technique. Furthermore, the documents are represented by semantic indexing based on the famous latent semantic indexing (LSI). Conducted experiments on well-known biomedical documents datasets show the significant superiority of ASOS-LSI over five famous algorithms in terms of compactness, f-measure, purity, misclassified documents, entropy, and runtime.
