Unsupervised Thematic Clustering Of hadith Texts Using The Apriori Algorithm

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that the Apriori algorithm can effectively automatically identify thematic groupings and semantic relationships in unlabeled hadith texts, aiding digital Islamic studies.

Contribution

It introduces an unsupervised thematic clustering method for hadith texts using the Apriori algorithm, highlighting its ability to uncover semantic associations.

Findings

Identified meaningful association patterns like rakaat-prayer and verse-revelation

Demonstrated Apriori's effectiveness in semantic relationship discovery

Contributed to digital Islamic studies and technology-based learning

Abstract

This research stems from the urgency to automate the thematic grouping of hadith in line with the growing digitalization of Islamic texts. Based on a literature review, the unsupervised learning approach with the Apriori algorithm has proven effective in identifying association patterns and semantic relations in unlabeled text data. The dataset used is the Indonesian Translation of the hadith of Bukhari, which first goes through preprocessing stages including case folding, punctuation cleaning, tokenization, stopword removal, and stemming. Next, an association rule mining analysis was conducted using the Apriori algorithm with support, confidence, and lift parameters. The results show the existence of meaningful association patterns such as the relationship between rakaat-prayer, verse-revelation, and hadith-story, which describe the themes of worship, revelation, and hadith narration. These findings demonstrate that the Apriori algorithm has the ability to automatically uncover latent semantic relationships, while contributing to the development of digital Islamic studies and technology-based learning systems.