Assessment of Twitter Data Clusters with Cosine-Based Validation Metrics Using Hybrid Topic Models

Abstract

Text data clustering is performed for organizing the set of text documents into the desired number of coherent and meaningful sub-clusters. Modeling the text documents in terms of topics derivations is a vital task in text data clustering. Each tweet is considered as a text document, and various topic models perform modeling of tweets. In existing topic models, the clustering tendency of tweets is assessed initially based on Euclidean dissimilarity features. Cosine metric is more suitable for more informative assessment, especially of text clustering. Thus, this paper develops a novel cosine based external and interval validity assessment of cluster tendency for improving the computational efficiency of tweets data clustering. In the experimental, tweets data clustering results are evaluated using cluster validity indices measures. Experimentally proved that cosine based internal and external validity metrics outperforms the other using benchmarked and Twitter-based datasets.