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Talk · International Scientific-Technical Conference on Actual Problems of Electronic Instrument Engineering · November 14, 2025

Unsupervised Hierarchical Clustering and Rule-Based Labeling of Uzbek Educational Texts

Khabibulla A. Madatov, Sapura Sattarova, Feruza Abdrimova

Sapura Sattarova
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Abstract

This paper presents an unsupervised clustering approach for organizing Uzbek educational texts into meaningful thematic groups. The corpus comprises approximately 9,700 text segments that were minimally normalized to preserve domain terminology. Texts are represented with term frequency–inverse document frequency (TF–IDF) features over unigrams and bigrams, then reduced via truncated singular value decomposition (SVD) to obtain a compact semantic space. We apply hierarchical agglomerative clustering with Ward linkage and select the number of clusters by scanning candidate values and comparing internal indices (Silhouette, Davies–Bouldin). The analysis indicates that ten clusters provide a balanced trade-off between cohesion and separation. Cluster interpretation, based on representative terms, reveals coherent groups aligned with major subject domains (literature, history, geography, mathematics, physics, biology). Quantitative evaluation confirms the reliability of the solution, showing strong agreement between cluster assignments and rule-based labels. The approach supports efficient cataloging of large-scale Uzbek educational resources and enables downstream applications such as curriculum analysis, semantic search, and intelligent content recommendation.

Advanced Clustering Algorithms ResearchText and Document Classification TechnologiesComputational and Text Analysis MethodsUzbek languageeducational textstopic clustering

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