Semantic Document Clustering on Named Entity Features
This approach could be useful for managing web-based learning materials by grouping documents based on related objects, but it appears incremental as it adapts existing methods to new features.
The paper tackles the limitations of keyword-based document clustering by introducing named entities as features, adapting the vector space model to use entity names, types, and identifiers, and achieves hierarchical clustering using cosine similarity measures.
Keyword-based information processing has limitations due to simple treatment of words. In this paper, we introduce named entities as objectives into document clustering, which are the key elements defining document semantics and in many cases are of user concerns. First, the traditional keyword-based vector space model is adapted with vectors defined over spaces of entity names, types, name-type pairs, and identifiers, instead of keywords. Then, hierarchical document clustering can be performed using the similarity measure defined as the cosines of the vectors representing documents. Experimental results are presented and discussed. Clustering documents by information of named entities could be useful for managing web-based learning materials with respect to related objects.