Re: Scalar Clustering

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

At 04:35 PM 4/1/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear Dr. Rao:
>In the task of scalar clustering. If I query "computer science", should I
>return 3 most related to "computer", and 3 to "science"? Or just 3 for
>"computer science"? I mean to treat terms individually or as a whole?
>Thank you very much.
>Looking forward to your reply ( Maybe I need to revise my code after I got 
>your
>reply.)
>
>Yin


For scalar clustering, you can only return 3 closest to computer and 3 
closest to science. [To send terms that are closest to the two terms as a 
whole, you will need to to similarity based clustering (where you represent 
the terms as well as queries as vectors in the space of documents).]

Rao