TextClustering

A simple text clustering algorithm in c#.

It will add the extension method ClusterBy on IEnumerable. You only need to specify which string property to use and some options.

Supported framework

.NET Standard 2.0

Install from Nuget

To get the latest version:

Install-Package TextClustering

Example

Consider the following model:

public class Document
{
    public string Content { get; set; }
}

How to invoke it:

using TextClustering;

// ...

var documents = new List<Document>();
// Fill list of documents.

var result = documents.ClusterBy(document => document.Content, options => options
    .WithMinClusterSize(5) // The minimum cluster size (default value: 5, but you should change it)
    .WithMinWordLength(5) // The minimum word length
    .WithMaxPresencePercent(10) // The maximum overall presence in percent of one word among all text
    .UseCaching(true) // (optional, true by default. Will use more ram, but prevent redoing the same calculation multiple times)
    .WithMaxDegreeOfParallelism(Environment.ProcessorCount) // (optional, will use one thread by default)
    .WithLanguages(Language.English, Language.French) // (optional, will use English stop words if not specified) This is used to eliminate words that are so commonly used that they carry very little useful information.
);

// result.Unclassified // List<Document>
// result.Clusters // List<List<Document>>

For more complete example, please see the project TextClusteringExample.

Copyright and license

Code released under the MIT license.