Effectively Mining Wikipedia for Clustering Multilingual Documents

This paper presents Multilingual Document Clustering (MDC) usingWikipedia on comparable corpora. Particularly, we utilized the cross lingual links, category, outlinks, Infobox information present in Wikipedia to enrich the document representation. We have used Bisecting k-means algorithm for clustering multilingual documents based on the document similarities. Experiments are conducted based on the usage of English and Hindi Wikipedia. We have considered English and Hindi Datasets provided by FIRE' 10(1) for Ad-hoc Cross-Lingual document retrieval task on Indian languages. No language specific tools are used, which makes the proposed approach easily extendable for other languages. The system is evaluated using F-score and Purity measures and the results obtained are encouraging.