Automated text clustering of newspaper and scientific texts in brazilian portuguese: analysis and comparison of methods

This article reports the findings of an empirical study about Automated Text Clustering applied to scientific articles and newspaper texts in Brazilian Portuguese, the objective was to find the most effective computational method able to cluster the input of texts in their original groups. The study covered four experiments, each experiment had four procedures: 1. Corpus Selections (a set of texts is selected for clustering), 2. Word Class Selections (Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives are chosen from each text by using specific algorithms), 3. Filtering Algorithms (a set of terms is selected from th...