Automatic Construction of Reduced Dimensional Cluster-based Keyword Association Networks using LSI

Han-mook Yoo, Han-joon Kim, Jae-young Chang

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2017.44.11.1236

In this paper, we propose a novel way of producing keyword networks, named LSI-based ClusterTextRank, which extracts significant key words from a set of clusters with a mutual information metric, and constructs an association network using latent semantic indexing (LSI). The proposed method reduces the dimension of documents through LSI, decomposes documents into multiple clusters through k-means clustering, and expresses the words within each cluster as a maximal spanning tree graph. The significant key words are identified by evaluating their mutual information within clusters. Then, the method calculates the similarities between the extracted key words using the term-concept matrix, and the results are represented as a keyword association network. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we used travel-related blog data and showed that the proposed method outperforms the existing TextRank algorithm by about 14% in terms of accuracy.