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Re:Document Clustering with Python by rjurney on Friday October 16, 2015 @07:46PM (#10402708)
If you like this, you might like this post I wrote a while back: http://datasyndrome.com/post/69514893525/yelp-dataset-challe...
Re:Document Clustering with Python by strong_ai on Friday October 16, 2015 @07:36PM (#10402670)
It would be really interesting to see a visualization (maybe using PCA) of the LDA vectors for each document. The topics are not super convincing that the LDA approach worked well.

Other than that, this is a good intro to NLP and calculating document similarity. Well done!

Re:Document Clustering with Python by stuartaxelowen on Saturday October 17, 2015 @05:15PM (#10406142)
I'm very interested in ways we can expand LDA (and other topic models) to retain more of the meaning of the documents, especially for small feedback (like reviews), such that a human could explore the results and find impactful, actionable data.

Using N-grams increases the dimensionality way too much.

I've thought about word-vectors as an option, but am unsure how similar terms could be grouped internally in LDA.

This kind of subject is probably worth a PHD thesis, honestly.