• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.61-73
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a Documents Cluster Labeling method using information content of words in clusters to understand what the clusters imply. To do so, we calculate the weight and frequency of the words. These two measures are used to determine the weight among the words in the cluster. As a nest step, we identify the candidate labels using the WordNet. At this time, the candidate labels are matched to least common hypernym of the words in the cluster. Finally, the representative labels are determined with respect to information content of the words and the weight of the words. To prove the superiority of our method, we perform the heuristic experiment using two kinds of measures, named the suitability of the candidate label ($Suitability_{cl}$) and the appropriacy of representative label ($Appropriacy_{rl}$). In applying the method proposed in this research, in case of suitability of the candidate label, it decreases slightly compared with existing methods, but the computational cost is about 20% of the conventional methods. And we confirmed that appropriacy of the representative label is better results than the existing methods. As a result, it is expected to help data analysts to interpret the document cluster easier.