scholarly journals Document Clustering - Concepts, Metrics and Algorithms

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Tarczynski

Document Clustering - Concepts, Metrics and AlgorithmsDocument clustering, which is also refered to astext clustering, is a technique of unsupervised document organisation. Text clustering is used to group documents into subsets that consist of texts that are similar to each orher. These subsets are called clusters. Document clustering algorithms are widely used in web searching engines to produce results relevant to a query. An example of practical use of those techniques are Yahoo! hierarchies of documents [1]. Another application of document clustering is browsing which is defined as searching session without well specific goal. The browsing techniques heavily relies on document clustering. In this article we examine the most important concepts related to document clustering. Besides the algorithms we present comprehensive discussion about representation of documents, calculation of similarity between documents and evaluation of clusters quality.

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.11) ◽  
pp. 246
Author(s):  
N. M. Ariff ◽  
M. A. A. Bakar ◽  
M. I. Rahmad

Text clustering is a data mining technique that is becoming more important in present studies. Document clustering makes use of text clustering to divide documents according to the various topics. The choice of words in document clustering is important to ensure that the document can be classified correctly. Three different methods of clustering which are hierarchical clustering, k-means and k-medoids are used and compared in this study in order to identify the best method which produce the best result in document clustering. The three methods are applied on 60 sports articles involving four different types of sports. The k-medoids clustering produced the worst result while k-means clustering is found to be more sensitive towards general words. Therefore, the method of hierarchical clustering is deemed more stable to produce a meaningful result in document clustering analysis. 


Author(s):  
Sinem Büyüksaatçı ◽  
Alp Baray

Document clustering, which involves concepts from the fields of information retrieval, automatic topic extraction, natural language processing, and machine learning, is one of the most popular research areas in data mining. Due to the large amount of information in electronic form, fast and high-quality cluster analysis plays an important role in helping users to effectively navigate, summarize and organise this information for useful data. There are a number of techniques in the literature, which efficiently provide solutions for document clustering. However, during the last decade, researchers started to use metaheuristic algorithms for the document clustering problem because of the limitations of the existing traditional clustering algorithms. In this chapter, the authors will give a brief review of various research papers that present the area of document or text clustering approaches with different metaheuristic algorithms.


Author(s):  
Laith Mohammad Abualigah ◽  
Essam Said Hanandeh ◽  
Ahamad Tajudin Khader ◽  
Mohammed Abdallh Otair ◽  
Shishir Kumar Shandilya

Background: Considering the increasing volume of text document information on Internet pages, dealing with such a tremendous amount of knowledge becomes totally complex due to its large size. Text clustering is a common optimization problem used to manage a large amount of text information into a subset of comparable and coherent clusters. Aims: This paper presents a novel local clustering technique, namely, β-hill climbing, to solve the problem of the text document clustering through modeling the β-hill climbing technique for partitioning the similar documents into the same cluster. Methods: The β parameter is the primary innovation in β-hill climbing technique. It has been introduced in order to perform a balance between local and global search. Local search methods are successfully applied to solve the problem of the text document clustering such as; k-medoid and kmean techniques. Results: Experiments were conducted on eight benchmark standard text datasets with different characteristics taken from the Laboratory of Computational Intelligence (LABIC). The results proved that the proposed β-hill climbing achieved better results in comparison with the original hill climbing technique in solving the text clustering problem. Conclusion: The performance of the text clustering is useful by adding the β operator to the hill climbing.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1063293X2098297
Author(s):  
Ivar Örn Arnarsson ◽  
Otto Frost ◽  
Emil Gustavsson ◽  
Mats Jirstrand ◽  
Johan Malmqvist

Product development companies collect data in form of Engineering Change Requests for logged design issues, tests, and product iterations. These documents are rich in unstructured data (e.g. free text). Previous research affirms that product developers find that current IT systems lack capabilities to accurately retrieve relevant documents with unstructured data. In this research, we demonstrate a method using Natural Language Processing and document clustering algorithms to find structurally or contextually related documents from databases containing Engineering Change Request documents. The aim is to radically decrease the time needed to effectively search for related engineering documents, organize search results, and create labeled clusters from these documents by utilizing Natural Language Processing algorithms. A domain knowledge expert at the case company evaluated the results and confirmed that the algorithms we applied managed to find relevant document clusters given the queries tested.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-185
Author(s):  
Saida Ishak Boushaki ◽  
Omar Bendjeghaba ◽  
Nadjet Kamel

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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.18) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Harsha Patil ◽  
Ramjeevan Singh Thakur

Document Clustering is an unsupervised method for classified documents in clusters on the basis of their similarity. Any document get it place in any specific cluster, on the basis of membership score, which calculated through membership function. But many of the traditional clustering algorithms are generally based on only BOW (Bag of Words), which ignores the semantic similarity between document and Cluster. In this research we consider the semantic association between cluster and text document during the calculation of membership score of any document for any specific cluster. Several researchers are working on semantic aspects of document clustering to develop clustering performance. Many external knowledge bases like WordNet, Wikipedia, Lucene etc. are utilized for this purpose. The proposed approach exploits WordNet to improve cluster member ship function. The experimental result shows that clustering quality improved significantly by using proposed framework of semantic approach. 


2014 ◽  
Vol 971-973 ◽  
pp. 1747-1751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Hai Qiang Chen ◽  
Wei Jie Li ◽  
Yan Zhao Liu ◽  
Run Pu Wu

Text clustering is a popular research topic in the field of text mining, and now there are a lot of text clustering methods catering to different application requirements. Currently, Weibo data acquisition is through the API provided by big microblogging platforms. In this essay, we will discuss the algorithm of extracting popular topics posted by Weibo users by text clustering after massive data collection. Due to the fact that traditional text analysis may not be applicable to short texts used in Weibo, text clustering shall be carried out through combining multiple posts into long texts, based on their features (forwards, comments and followers, etc.). Either frequency-based or density-based short text clustering can deliver in most cases. The former is applicable to find hot topics from large Weibo short texts, and the latter is applicable to find abnormal contents. Both the two methods use semantic information to improve the accuracy of clustering. Besides, they improve the performance of clustering through the parallelism.


Author(s):  
Harsha Patil ◽  
R. S. Thakur

As we know use of Internet flourishes with its full velocity and in all dimensions. Enormous availability of Text documents in digital form (email, web pages, blog post, news articles, ebooks and other text files) on internet challenges technology to appropriate retrieval of document as a response for any search query. As a result there has been an eruption of interest in people to mine these vast resources and classify them properly. It invigorates researchers and developers to work on numerous approaches of document clustering. Researchers got keen interest in this problem of text mining. The aim of this chapter is to summarised different document clustering algorithms used by researchers.


2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (S2) ◽  
pp. 4535-4549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun Kumar Sangaiah ◽  
Ahmed E. Fakhry ◽  
Mohamed Abdel-Basset ◽  
Ibrahim El-henawy

2020 ◽  
pp. 016555152091159
Author(s):  
Muhammad Qasim Memon ◽  
Yu Lu ◽  
Penghe Chen ◽  
Aasma Memon ◽  
Muhammad Salman Pathan ◽  
...  

Text segmentation (TS) is the process of dividing multi-topic text collections into cohesive segments using topic boundaries. Similarly, text clustering has been renowned as a major concern when it comes to multi-topic text collections, as they are distinguished by sub-topic structure and their contents are not associated with each other. Existing clustering approaches follow the TS method which relies on word frequencies and may not be suitable to cluster multi-topic text collections. In this work, we propose a new ensemble clustering approach (ECA) is a novel topic-modelling-based clustering approach, which induces the combination of TS and text clustering. We improvised a LDA-onto (LDA-ontology) is a TS-based model, which presents a deterioration of a document into segments (i.e. sub-documents), wherein each sub-document is associated with exactly one sub-topic. We deal with the problem of clustering when it comes to a document that is intrinsically related to various topics and its topical structure is missing. ECA is tested through well-known datasets in order to provide a comprehensive presentation and validation of clustering algorithms using LDA-onto. ECA exhibits the semantic relations of keywords in sub-documents and resultant clusters belong to original documents that they contain. Moreover, present research sheds the light on clustering performances and it indicates that there is no difference over performances (in terms of F-measure) when the number of topics changes. Our findings give above par results in order to analyse the problem of text clustering in a broader spectrum without applying dimension reduction techniques over high sparse data. Specifically, ECA provides an efficient and significant framework than the traditional and segment-based approach, such that achieved results are statistically significant with an average improvement of over 10.2%. For the most part, proposed framework can be evaluated in applications where meaningful data retrieval is useful, such as document summarization, text retrieval, novelty and topic detection.


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