Text Analysis 101; A Basic Understanding for Business Users: Clustering and Unsupervised Methods

This blog was originally posted as part of our Text Analysis 101 blog series. It aims to explain how the classification of text works as part of Natural Language Processing. It was the second blog on harnessing Machine Learning (ML) in the form of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Automatic Classification of documents. By classifying text, we aim to assign a document or piece of text to one or more classes or categories making it easier to manage or sort. A Document Classifier often returns or assigns a category "label" or "code" to a document or piece of text.