Clustering short texts using wikipedia

  • Authors:
  • Somnath Banerjee;Krishnan Ramanathan;Ajay Gupta

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bangalore, India;Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bangalore, India;Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bangalore, India

  • Venue:
  • SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Subscribers to the popular news or blog feeds (RSS/Atom) often face the problem of information overload as these feed sources usually deliver large number of items periodically. One solution to this problem could be clustering similar items in the feed reader to make the information more manageable for a user. Clustering items at the feed reader end is a challenging task as usually only a small part of the actual article is received through the feed. In this paper, we propose a method of improving the accuracy of clustering short texts by enriching their representation with additional features from Wikipedia. Empirical results indicate that this enriched representation of text items can substantially improve the clustering accuracy when compared to the conventional bag of words representation.