Recommended books or articles as introduction to Cluster Analysis?

Question

I'm working on a small (200M) corpus of text, which I want to explore with some cluster analysis. What books or articles on that subject would you recommend?

Answer 1

It may be worth looking at M.W. Berry's books:

1. Survey of Text Mining I: Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval (2003)
2. Survey of Text Mining II: Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval (2008)

They consist of series of applied and review papers. The latest seems to be available as PDF at the following address: http://bit.ly/deNeiy.

Here are few links related to CA as applied to text mining:

• Document Topic Generation in Text Mining by Using Cluster Analysis with EROCK
• An Approach to Text Mining using Information Extraction

You can also look at Latent Semantic Analysis, but see my response there: Working through a clustering problem.

Answer 2

This chapter of Introduction to Data Mining is available online and gives a nice overview.

Answer 3

Cluster Analysis by Brian S. Everitt is a nice book length applied treatment of Cluster Analysis.

Answer 4

Not specifically about text-mining, but I quite liked "Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB" by Martinez and Martinez.