A comparative evaluation of different link types on enhancing document clustering

With a growing number of works utilizing link information in enhancing document clustering, it becomes necessary to make a comparative evaluation of the impacts of different link types on document clustering. Various types of links between text documents, including explicit links such as citation links and hyperlinks, implicit links such as co-authorship links, and pseudo links such as content similarity links, convey topic similarity or topic transferring patterns, which is very useful for document clustering. In this study, we adopt a Relaxation Labeling (RL)based clustering algorithm, which employs both content and linkage information, to evaluate the effectiveness of the aforementioned types of links for document clustering on eight datasets. The experimental results show that linkage is quite effective in improving content-based document clustering. Furthermore, a series of interesting findings regarding the impacts of different link types on document clustering are discovered th...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SIGIR
• Authors: Xiaodan Zhang, Xiaohua Hu, Xiaohua Zhou
• Keywords: Content Similarity Links, Document, Information Technology, Keywords Link-based Clustering, SIGIR 2008