# Natural Language Toolkit: Group Average Agglomerative Clusterer # # Copyright (C) 2001-2012 NLTK Project # Author: Trevor Cohn # URL: # For license information, see LICENSE.TXT import copy try: import numpy except ImportError: pass from nltk.cluster.util import VectorSpaceClusterer, Dendrogram class GAAClusterer(VectorSpaceClusterer): """ The Group Average Agglomerative starts with each of the N vectors as singleton clusters. It then iteratively merges pairs of clusters which have the closest centroids. This continues until there is only one cluster. The order of merges gives rise to a dendrogram: a tree with the earlier merges lower than later merges. The membership of a given number of clusters c, 1 <= c <= N, can be found by cutting the dendrogram at depth c. This clusterer uses the cosine similarity metric only, which allows for efficient speed-up in the clustering process. """ def __init__(self, num_clusters=1, normalise=True, svd_dimensions=None): VectorSpaceClusterer.__init__(self, normalise, svd_dimensions) self._num_clusters = num_clusters self._dendrogram = None self._groups_values = None def cluster(self, vectors, assign_clusters=False, trace=False): # stores the merge order self._dendrogram = Dendrogram( [numpy.array(vector, numpy.float64) for vector in vectors]) return VectorSpaceClusterer.cluster(self, vectors, assign_clusters, trace) def cluster_vectorspace(self, vectors, trace=False): # create a cluster for each vector clusters = [[vector] for vector in vectors] # the sum vectors vector_sum = copy.copy(vectors) while len(clusters) > max(self._num_clusters, 1): # find the two best candidate clusters to merge, based on their # S(union c_i, c_j) best = None for i in range(len(clusters)): for j in range(i + 1, len(clusters)): sim = self._average_similarity( vector_sum[i], len(clusters[i]), vector_sum[j], len(clusters[j])) if not best or sim > best[0]: best = (sim, i, j) # merge them and replace in cluster list i, j = best[1:] sum = clusters[i] + clusters[j] if trace: print 'merging %d and %d' % (i, j) clusters[i] = sum del clusters[j] vector_sum[i] = vector_sum[i] + vector_sum[j] del vector_sum[j] self._dendrogram.merge(i, j) self.update_clusters(self._num_clusters) def update_clusters(self, num_clusters): clusters = self._dendrogram.groups(num_clusters) self._centroids = [] for cluster in clusters: assert len(cluster) > 0 if self._should_normalise: centroid = self._normalise(cluster[0]) else: centroid = numpy.array(cluster[0]) for vector in cluster[1:]: if self._should_normalise: centroid += self._normalise(vector) else: centroid += vector centroid /= float(len(cluster)) self._centroids.append(centroid) self._num_clusters = len(self._centroids) def classify_vectorspace(self, vector): best = None for i in range(self._num_clusters): centroid = self._centroids[i] sim = self._average_similarity(vector, 1, centroid, 1) if not best or sim > best[0]: best = (sim, i) return best[1] def dendrogram(self): """ :return: The dendrogram representing the current clustering :rtype: Dendrogram """ return self._dendrogram def num_clusters(self): return self._num_clusters def _average_similarity(self, v1, l1, v2, l2): sum = v1 + v2 length = l1 + l2 return (numpy.dot(sum, sum) - length) / (length * (length - 1)) def __repr__(self): return '' % self._num_clusters def demo(): """ Non-interactive demonstration of the clusterers with simple 2-D data. """ from nltk.cluster import GAAClusterer # use a set of tokens with 2D indices vectors = [numpy.array(f) for f in [[3, 3], [1, 2], [4, 2], [4, 0], [2, 3], [3, 1]]] # test the GAAC clusterer with 4 clusters clusterer = GAAClusterer(4) clusters = clusterer.cluster(vectors, True) print 'Clusterer:', clusterer print 'Clustered:', vectors print 'As:', clusters print # show the dendrogram clusterer.dendrogram().show() # classify a new vector vector = numpy.array([3, 3]) print 'classify(%s):' % vector, print clusterer.classify(vector) print if __name__ == '__main__': demo()