[jira] [Issue Comment Edited] (MAHOUT-845) Make cluster top terms code more reusable

["Lance Norskog (Issue Comment Edited) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Lance Norskog edited comment on MAHOUT-845 at 11/13/11 9:45 PM:
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1) Is this feature useful in any other code outside Clustering?
2) Can it be a static method? Vector has 14+ implementations, and all of them have to make sure they do nothing to screw this up. Some of them cannot support this effectively, and other would need to keep a cache as they are populated. 


                
      was (Author: lancenorskog):
    1) Is this feature useful in any other code outside Clustering?
2) Can it be a static method somewhere rather than a method that has to be supported by the 14 currently known implementations of Vector?


                  
> 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
>    Affects Versions: 0.5
>            Reporter: Frank Scholten
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.6
>
>         Attachments: MAHOUT-845.patch, MAHOUT-845.patch, MAHOUT-845.patch
>
>
> 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?

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