tfidf, am I understanding it right?

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Hey everyone, I am interested in doing some document clustering, and right now I am considering using TF-IDF for this.

If I am not wrong, TFIDF is particularly used for evaluating the relevance of a document given a query. If I do not have a particular query, how can I apply tfidf to clustering?

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