On the use of ensemble method for multi view textual data

Abstract

Nowadays, trends detection is an important task on social media to determine trends that are being discussed the most on a social platform. One of the main challenges of this task is the processing of unstructured textual data which has different representations. Therefore, multi view text clustering presents a useful solution for trends detection by integrating various representations called ‘views’ to provide a complementary description of the same content. In this context, we propose a new ensemble method for multi-view text clustering that exploits different representations of text in order to produce more accurate and high quality clustering. Extensive experiments on real-world text datasets were conducted to demonstrate its superiority by comparing with the existing methods. An application of the proposed method in trends detection from twitter is also illustrated.

Keywords

• text clustering
• multi-view data
• ensemble method
• skip-gram
• lda