What are some other cases where this would be useful? Lance
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Frank Scholten (Commented) (JIRA) < [email protected]> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-845?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13130827#comment-13130827] > > Frank Scholten commented on MAHOUT-845: > --------------------------------------- > > +1 Adding that method to Vector. This way we have both top weights and top > terms for any vector. We can remove the TermIndexWeight helper class from > ClusterDumper. I'll submit a patch tomorrow. > > > Make cluster top terms code more reusable > > ----------------------------------------- > > > > Key: MAHOUT-845 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-845 > > Project: Mahout > > Issue Type: Improvement > > Components: Clustering > > Reporter: Frank Scholten > > Priority: Minor > > > > When working with Mahout text clustering I find that I keep writing code > similar to the contents of > > public static String getTopFeatures(Cluster cluster, String[] dictionary, > int numTerms) > > in ClusterDumper in order to determine cluster labels. > > I think it would be useful if (parts of) this code are added to the > cluster or vector API so that you could do something like > > Cluster cluster = ... // get the cluster from seq file iterable > > String clusterLabel = cluster.getTopTerms(1, dictionary); // Do something > with the label > > I think this would make it easier to export and post-process clustering > results, like indexing or storing them elsewhere. > > Thoughts? > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA > administrators: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa > For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira > > > -- Lance Norskog [email protected]
