Web Clustering is useful for several activities in the WWW, from automatically building web directories to improve retrieval performance. Nevertheless, due to the huge size of the web, a linear mechanism must be employed to cluster web documents. The k-means is one classic algorithm used in this problem. We present a variant of the vector model to be used with the k-means algorithm. Our representation uses symbolic objects for clustering web documents. Some experiments were done with positive results and future work is optimistic.
['Esteban Meneses', 'Oldemar Rodríguez-Rojas']
Using symbolic objects to cluster web documents