A bulletin board system(BBS) hot topic mining algorithm based on fuzzy clustering was developed to solve the problem of the post thread with multiple topics and identifying the outliers in clustering.

为解决单个帖子线索的多话题性问题，识别聚类中的孤立点，提出一种基于模糊聚类的网络论坛（BBS）热点话题挖掘算法。

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To make a basketball analogy, it's a bit like when your tin-armed, non-jump-shooting center gets the ball near the three-point line: You know he won't shoot or thread the ball into the post, so you have a moment's respite while he looks for a guard to bail him out.

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