%0 Conference Paper %1 hotho03explaining %A Hotho, Andreas %A Staab, Steffen %A Stumme, Gerd %B Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2003, 7th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases %C Heidelberg %D 2003 %E Lavrac, Nada %E Gamberger, Dragan %E Todorovski, Hendrik BlockeelLjupco %I Springer %K 2003 analysis clustering concept fca formal myown ontologies semantic semantics text %P 217-228 %T Explaining Text Clustering Results using Semantic Structures %U http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/stumme/papers/2003/hotho2003explaining.pdf %V 2838 %X Common text clustering techniques offer rather poor capabilities for explaining to their users why a particular result has been achieved. They have the disadvantage that they do not relate semantically nearby terms and that they cannot explain how resulting clusters are related to each other. In this paper, we discuss a way of integrating a large thesaurus and the computation of lattices of resulting clusters into common text clustering in order to overcome these two problems. As its major result, our approach achieves an explanation using an appropriate level of granularity at the concept level as well as an appropriate size and complexity of the explaining lattice of resulting clusters.