Clustering and Information Retrieval

Clustering is an important technique for discovering relatively dense sub-regions or sub-spaces of a multi-dimension data distribution. Clus­ tering has been used in information retrieval for many different purposes, such as query expansion, document grouping, document indexing, and visualization of search results. In this book, we address issues of cluster­ ing algorithms, evaluation methodologies, applications, and architectures for information retrieval. The first two chapters discuss cl...