Text Clustering Using Frequent Weighted Utility Itemsets

ABSTRACT

Text clustering is an important topic in text mining. One of the most effective methods for text clustering is an approach based on frequent itemsets (FIs), and thus, there are many related algorithms that aim to improve the accuracy of text clustering. However, these do not focus on the weights of terms in documents, even though the frequency of each term in each document has a great impact on the results. In this work, we propose a new method for text clustering based on frequent weighted utility itemsets (FWUI). First, we calculate the Term Frequency (TF) for each term in documents to create a weight matrix for all documents. The weights of terms in documents are based on the Inverse Document Frequency. Next, we use the Modification Weighted Itemset Tidset (MWIT)-FWUI algorithm for mining FWUI from a number matrix and the weights of terms in documents. Finally, based on frequent utility itemsets, we cluster documents using the MC (Maximum Capturing) algorithm. The proposed method has been evaluated on three data sets consisting of 1,600 documents covering 16 topics. The experimental results show that our method, using FWUI, improves the accuracy of the text clustering compared to methods using FIs.