TOPIC CLUSTERING  ON  AMHARIC COMMENTS  USING BERT  EMBEDDING  AND  PARTITIONING  ALGORITHMS.

HAIMANOT, HAILU

dc.contributor.author	HAIMANOT, HAILU
dc.date.accessioned	2022-12-31T06:40:32Z
dc.date.available	2022-12-31T06:40:32Z
dc.date.issued	2022-08
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/14784
dc.description.abstract	Topic clustering is one of the methods to organize comments posted on Online Media Service (OMS) news. Online news such as social media news has many comments every day. However, most comments are not well - organized to easily find relevant information on a specific topic. And topic clustering for short text documents is a very challenging task , especially for comments that are very concise and contain few words per document. In addition , the short text has the problems of data sparsity and irregularity, and most words only appear once in a short text. To the best of our knowledge, there is no work for clustering short Amharic comments. To address the aforementioned problems, we have developed an Amharic comments topic clustering model using contextual sentence representation and partition - based algorithms. Th is thesis aim s to design and develop a topic clustering model for Amharic comments on OMS news. We used BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) models for contextual sentence representation . The transfer learning method is used for sentence embedding of Amharic comments using English BERT. Finally, we applied mini - batch k- means and Fuzzy c- means clustering algorithms. We conducted experiments on the two models and the experiment results show that BERT embedding with mini - batch K- means clustering algorithm and BERT with fuzzy C- means clustering h as equal values of 1.0 of the v - measure score, adjusted- rand- score, and adjusted- mutual - information - score. But fuzzy C - means have a lower silhouette- score value of 0.996 than mini - batch K- means which have a 0.998 score value. Mini - batch K- means clustering is more accurate and takes less time to compute. Fuzzy C - means clustering shows similar results that are comparable to mini - batch K- means clustering, but it takes longer to compute. Therefore, the mini - batch K- means clustering algorithm was found to be more appropriate to cluster Amharic comments to news	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY	en_US
dc.title	TOPIC CLUSTERING ON AMHARIC COMMENTS USING BERT EMBEDDING AND PARTITIONING ALGORITHMS.	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US