Scalable Overlapping Co-clustering of Word-Document Data

Text clustering is used on a variety of applications such as content-based recommendation, categorization, summarization, information retrieval and automatic topic extraction. Since most pair of documents usually shares just a small percentage of words, the dataset representation tends to become very sparse, thus the need of using a similarity metric capable of a partial matching of a set of features. The technique known as Co-Clustering is capable of finding several clusters inside a dataset with each cluster composed of just a subset of the object and feature sets. In word-document data this can be useful to identify the clusters of documents pertaining to the same topic, even though they share just a small fraction of words. In this paper a scalable co-clustering algorithm is proposed using the Locality-sensitive hashing technique in order to find co-clusters of documents. The proposed algorithm will be tested against other co-clustering and traditional algorithms in well known datasets. The results show that this algorithm is capable of finding clusters more accurately than other approaches while maintaining a linear complexity.