Organização flexível de documentos

Several methods have been developed to organize the growing number of textual documents. Such methods frequently use clustering algorithms to organize documents with similar topics into clusters. However, there are situations when documents of dierent clusters can also have similar characteristics. In order to overcome this drawback, it is necessary to develop methods that permit a soft document organization, i.e., clustering documents into dierent clusters according to dierent compatibility degrees. Among the techniques that we can use to develop methods in this sense, we highlight fuzzy clustering algorithms (FCA). By using FCA, one of the most important steps is the evaluation of the yield organization, which is performed considering that all analyzed topics are adequately identied by cluster descriptors. In general, cluster descriptors are extracted using some heuristic over a small number of documents. The adequate extraction and evaluation of cluster descriptors is important because they are terms that represent the collection and identify the topics of the documents. Therefore, an adequate description of the obtained clusters is as important as a good clustering, since the same descriptor might identify one or more clusters. Hence, the development of methods to extract descriptors from fuzzy clusters obtained for soft organization of documents motivated this thesis. Aiming at investigating such methods, we developed: i) the SoftO-FDCL (Soft Organization -Fuzzy Description Comes Last) method, in which descriptors of fuzzy clusters are extracted after clustering documents, identifying topics regardless the adopted fuzzy clustering algorithm; ii) the SoftO-wFDCL (Soft Organization -weighted Fuzzy Description Comes Last) method, in which descriptors of fuzzy clusters are also extracted after the fuzzy clustering process using the membership degrees of the documents as a weighted factor for the candidate descriptors; iii) the HSoftO-FDCL (Hierarchical Soft Organization -Fuzzy Description Comes Last) method, in which descriptors of hierarchical fuzzy clusters are extracted after the hierarchical fuzzy clustering process, identifying topics by means of a soft hierarchical organization of documents. Besides presenting these new methods, this thesis also discusses the application of the SoftO-FDCL method on documents produced by the Canadian continuing medical education program, presenting the utility and applicability of the soft organization of documents in real-world scenario.

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