I am working in text clustering. I would like to find a way to identify the number of classes for the clustering process automatically rather than proving the number of class manually. Is their any proof or model for this?
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2$\begingroup$ What is the clustering method you're using? $\endgroup$– JundiaiusCommented Jun 16, 2014 at 11:36
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There are a number of methods to do this; the one that I find most intuitive is the elbow method. To perform this analysis, plot a graph of the number of clusters versus your error; if there is a number $n$ after which increasing the number of clusters doesn't reduce the error by much, but decreasing the number of clusters significantly increases your error, pick $n$ to be the number of clusters.
