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K-Means + Topic Modeling | Unsupervised NLP Pipeline

This project transforms raw text into structured knowledge through a complete unsupervised NLP pipeline.
By leveraging K-Means for document segmentation and LDA for topic extraction, it reveals meaningful patterns, customer sentiments, and content groupings hidden within large text corpora.

Methodology

** Text Preprocessing**

  • Standardized text through:
    • Lowercasing, punctuation stripping, lemmatization, and stopword removal.
    • Custom tokenization using nltk and spaCy.
  • Converted text to numeric form using TF-IDF vectorization.

** K-Means Clustering**

  • Determined the optimal number of clusters using:
    • Elbow Method and Silhouette Coefficient.
  • Trained K-Means and visualized document groupings using PCA (2D).
  • Interpreted cluster meaning through top TF-IDF features per cluster.

** Topic Modeling (LDA)**

  • Applied Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) from gensim to uncover latent topics.
  • Visualized results with pyLDAvis and WordCloud for intuitive exploration.
  • Compared LDA topics with K-Means clusters to measure semantic coherence and interpretability.

Results

  • Clear cluster separation in 2D PCA visualization — indicating coherent document groupings.
  • LDA revealed thematic patterns such as sentiment tone, discussion type, or contextual topics.
  • Combining clustering + topic modeling enhanced both interpretability and insight depth.

Business Value

Customer & Market Insight

This project empowers organizations to uncover customer needs, pain points, and emerging themes hidden in large volumes of unstructured text — such as reviews, surveys, or social media posts.

By combining clustering and topic modeling, the pipeline:

  • Identifies key drivers of satisfaction or dissatisfaction
  • Highlights emerging issues or trends in real time
  • Provides a data-driven foundation for voice-of-the-customer analytics

Example:
A telecom company could cluster 100,000 feedback comments into major themes like network reliabilitybilling issues, and customer support response, allowing managers to prioritize actions with measurable impact.


Operational Efficiency

Manual text analysis is slow and inconsistent.
This solution introduces automation and scalability, enabling teams to:

  • Reduce manual classification effort by 60–80%
  • Monitor feedback or ticket data in real time
  • Ensure consistent topic categorization across multiple sources

This efficiency translates to faster decision cycles and lower analysis costs.


Strategic Decision Support

The model turns raw text into structured, decision-ready insights.
Business leaders can use this to:

  • Align marketing and product strategy with authentic customer language
  • Detect unmet needs and innovation opportunities
  • Drive data-backed roadmap planning

By generating topic and cluster features, this workflow also creates reusable inputs for predictive analytics — such as churnNPS, or sentiment prediction models.

Cross-Functional Impact

DepartmentUse CaseValue
MarketingIdentify trending topics and regional sentimentData-driven campaign design
Product ManagementDetect UX pain points and feature requestsCustomer-centric innovation
Customer SupportAuto-categorize incoming ticketsFaster resolution & triage
Analytics / BIAdd topic features to dashboards & modelsEnriched customer insights

Summary

This NLP pipeline converts unstructured text into structured business intelligence — helping organizations listen at scalereduce manual effort, and make proactive, customer-focused decisions.

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