Clustering Posts in Online Discussion Forum Threads
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Clustering Posts in Online Discussion Forum Threads
Online discussion forums are considered a challenging repository for data mining tasks. Forums usually contain hundreds of threads which in turn consist of hundreds, or even thousands, of posts. Clustering posts can be used to discover outlier and off-topic posts and would provide better visualization and exploration of online threads.In this paper, we propose the Leader-based Post Clustering (...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0975-4660
DOI: 10.5121/ijcsit.2011.3201