What does the Brown clustering algorithm output mean?

Question

I\'ve ran the brown-clustering algorithm from https://github.com/percyliang/brown-cluster and also a python implementation https://github.com/mheilman/tan-clustering. And th

Answer 1

In Percy Liang's implementation (https://github.com/percyliang/brown-cluster), the -C parameter allows you to specify the number of word clusters. The output contains all the words in the corpus, together with a bit-string annotating the cluster and the word frequency in the following format: . The number of distinct bit strings in the output equals the number of desired clusters and the words with the same bit string belong to the same cluster.