Concept Decomposition

We can use clustering for Dimensionality Reduction of text data


do clustering

  • most frequent terms in the centroids are the basis
  • they are almost orthogonal - they shouldn't appear a lot in other clusters
  • then represent each document in terms of this basis


References

Sources

  • Aggarwal, Charu C., and ChengXiang Zhai. "A survey of text clustering algorithms." Mining Text Data. Springer US, 2012. [2]