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K-Means Clustering for Text

svtorykhsvtorykh Member Posts: 35 Guru
edited December 2018 in Help

Hi RM Team! I have a quck question about application of K-Means clustering for text.

 

I have a set of ~2000 comments. Once I'm done with Text Processing (using TF-IDF) I have a word vector matrix of ~30 terms.

 

I then apply K-means operator, but I wonder what actually serves as input for clustering? Is it vector matrix? If so, does clustering algorythm uses values from TF-IDF Word Vectors or some other values?

 

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    Telcontar120Telcontar120 Moderator, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, RapidMiner Certified Expert, Member Posts: 1,635 Unicorn
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    Exactly, it is the word vector matrix that is used.  So if you created the vector using TF-IDF, it will use those values.  You also have the option of using other methods to create the vector like binary term occurrences or term frequency percentage.

     

    Brian T.
    Lindon Ventures 
    Data Science Consulting from Certified RapidMiner Experts

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    svtorykhsvtorykh Member Posts: 35 Guru

    Thanks much!

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    Telcontar120Telcontar120 Moderator, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, RapidMiner Certified Expert, Member Posts: 1,635 Unicorn

    Your cluster will be based on the pruned values of the word vector.  If you are interested in the details you should be able to review the actual values for each cluster on the centroid table output of the k-means operator.

    Brian T.
    Lindon Ventures 
    Data Science Consulting from Certified RapidMiner Experts
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