Study Questions

You should be able to answer each of the following questions.

  1. How are clustering of documents and clustering of terms related?
  2. What good is a hierarchical cluster tree to a IS &R system?
  3. What effect will choice of similarity function have on the end result of clustering?
  4. Is it preferable to use a partitioning method or an agglomerative method? Why?
  5. What is the right clustering algorithm to use, given a particular collection of data?


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Thu Oct 27 06:33:06 EDT 1994