The BankSearch web document dataset: Investigating unsupervised clustering and category similarity

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 129-146

  Sinka, Mark P ^a   Corne, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmark dataset; Clustering; Stemming; Stoplists; Text classification; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES;

BENCHMARK DATASET; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 10844283610     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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