Frequent term based peer-to-peer text clustering

Text clustering is an important technology for automatically structuring large document collections. It is much more valuable in peer-to-peer networks. The high dimensionality of documents means much more communication could be saved if each node could get the approximate clustering result by distributed algorithm instead of transferring them into a center and do the clustering. Most of the existing text clustering algorithms in unstructured peer-to-peer networks are based on K-means algorithm. A problem of those algorithms is that the clustering quality may decreased with the increase of the network size. In this paper, we propose a text clustering algorithm based on frequent term sets for peer-to-peer networks. It requires relatively lower communication volume while achieving a clustering result whose quality will not be affected by the size of the network. Moreover, it gives a term set describing each cluster, which makes it possible for people to have a clear comprehension for the clustering result, and facilitates the users to find resource in the network or manage the local documents in accordance with the whole network.