Non-Exhaustive, Overlapping k-medoids for Document Clustering

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2020-01-07

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Manual document categorization is time consuming, expensive, and difficult to manage for large collections. Unsupervised clustering algorithms perform well when documents belong to only one group. However, individual documents may be outliers or span multiple topics. This paper proposes a new clustering algorithm called non-exhaustive overlapping k-medoids inspired by k-medoids and non-exhaustive overlapping k-means. The proposed algorithm partitions a set of objects into k clusters based on pairwise similarity. Each object is assigned to zero, one, or many groups to emulate manual results. The algorithm uses dissimilarity instead of distance measures and applies to text and other abstract data. Neo-k-medoids is tested against manually tagged movie descriptions and Wikipedia comments. Initial results are primarily poor but show promise. Future research is described to improve the proposed algorithm and explore alternate evaluation measures.

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Text Analytics, disjunctive, document clustering, outlier detection, overlapping

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10 pages

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Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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