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DBSCAN Algorithm for Document Clustering

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  • Creţulescu Radu G.
  • Morariu Daniel I.
  • Breazu Macarie
  • Volovici Daniel

    („Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Engineering Faculty, Computer Science and Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department)

Abstract

Document clustering is a problem of automatically grouping similar document into categories based on some similarity metrics. Almost all available data, usually on the web, are unclassified so we need powerful clustering algorithms that work with these types of data. All common search engines return a list of pages relevant to the user query. This list needs to be generated fast and as correct as possible. For this type of problems, because the web pages are unclassified, we need powerful clustering algorithms. In this paper we present a clustering algorithm called DBSCAN – Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise – and its limitations on documents (or web pages) clustering. Documents are represented using the “bag-of-words” representation (word occurrence frequency). For this type o representation usually a lot of algorithms fail. In this paper we use Information Gain as feature selection method and evaluate the DBSCAN algorithm by its capacity to integrate in the clusters all the samples from the dataset.

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  • Creţulescu Radu G. & Morariu Daniel I. & Breazu Macarie & Volovici Daniel, 2019. "DBSCAN Algorithm for Document Clustering," International Journal of Advanced Statistics and IT&C for Economics and Life Sciences, Sciendo, vol. 9(1), pages 58-66, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:ijsiel:v:9:y:2019:i:1:p:58-66:n:7
    DOI: 10.2478/ijasitels-2019-0007
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