January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
316 pages
7h 14m
English
Text clustering is the act of assigning different topics to pieces of text for the purpose of understanding what documents are about. Imagine a large hotel chain that gets thousands of reviews a week from around the world. Employees of the hotel would like to know what people are saying in order to have a better idea of what they are doing well and what can be improved.
Of course, the limiting factor here is the ability for humans to read all of these texts quickly and correctly. We can train machines to identify the types of things that people are talking about and then predict the topics of new and incoming reviews in order to automate this process.
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