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Automatic document organization, topic extraction, information retrieval and filtering all have one thing in common. They require text clustering (sometimes also known as document clustering) to be done quickly and accurately. If you've never heard of text clustering, this post will explain what it is, what it does, and how its currently being used to aid businesses. We'll also briefly discuss how a business could employ text clustering too! First, let's define text clustering.

In this two-part series, we will explore text clustering and how to get insights from unstructured data. It will be quite powerful and industrial strength. The first part will focus on the motivation. The second part will be about implementation. This post is the first part of the two-part series on how to get insights from unstructured data using text clustering.

In this two-part series, we will explore text clustering and how to get insights from unstructured data. It will be quite powerful and industrial strength. The first part will focus on the motivation. The second part will be about implementation. This post is the first part of the two-part series on how to get insights from unstructured data using text clustering.

Another important question is the absoluteness of the constraints. Lately several web-based tagging systems such as Technorati, Even if we use this approach to turn tags into constraints, Flickr or Delicious have become very popular. In this a fair amount of them are bound to be inaccurate paper we will exploit the information created by the community (i.e., linking documents which should not be in the same in Delicious: a social bookmarking service where cluster) until a high value of the parameter t, due to the polysemy the users can save the URLs of their favourite webpages of the terms used as tags or to differences in the criteria offering also the possibility of associating tags to them. of the taggers. Consequently, we have used soft positive On the other hand the clustering methods are a very important constraints, meaning that the documents affected by one of data mining tool in order to exploit the knowledge them are likely to be in the same cluster, without forcing the present in data collections. In the last years a new family of clustering algorithm to actually put them so.