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Document clustering

Document clustering (or text clustering) is the application of cluster analysis to textual documents. It has applications in automatic document organization, topic extraction and fast information retrieval or filtering.

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TokenizationBag-of-words modelN-gram modelStemmingLemmatization
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Clustering in search engines

Web search engine
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Clustering v. Classifying

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Cluster analysisTopicInformation retrievalK-means algorithmDimensionality reduction
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Clustering in search engines

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Document clustering

Nodes28
Edges27
Triples40
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.071429
Components1

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Document clustering → ACM Computing Surveys, Andrews, Article No, Cambridge University Press, Carpineto, Chee Peng Lim, Christopher, Dawid Weiss, DOI, Edward, Flat Clustering, Fox, Giovanni Romano, Hinrich Schütze, Information Retrieval, Introduction, ISSN, Issue, July, Kai Meng Tay
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Document clustering → Descriptors, Document, Examples, Online, Text, The
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Document clustering → In, Tokenization

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Document clusteringrelated to BibliographyChristopher0.60section
Document clusteringrelated to BibliographyManning0.60section
Document clusteringrelated to BibliographyPrabhakar Raghavan0.60section
Document clusteringrelated to BibliographyHinrich Schütze0.60section
Document clusteringrelated to BibliographyFlat Clustering0.60section
Document clusteringrelated to BibliographyIntroduction0.60section
Document clusteringrelated to BibliographyInformation Retrieval0.60section
Document clusteringrelated to BibliographyCambridge University Press0.60section
Document clusteringrelated to BibliographyAndrews0.60section
Document clusteringrelated to BibliographyEdward0.60section
Document clusteringrelated to BibliographyFox0.60section
Document clusteringrelated to BibliographyRecent Developments0.60section

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