Question 1: Will the clustering process always come to the same final set of clusters no matter what the starting clusters? Explain your answer.
Question 2: Can statistical thesaurus generation be used to develop a hierarchical cluster representation of a set of items? Discuss the value of creating the hierarchy and howyou would use it in a system.
Question 3: What is the effect of clustering techniques on reducing the user overhead of findingrelevant items.
Question 4: What are the technical issues with providing clustering presentation with every search? Is there some preprocessing approach that could make such a presentation more realistic?
Question 5: In order to do timeline presentation what information is needed? How would that information be determined?