A viable alternative to the traditional text-mining methods is the WEBSOM, a software system
based on the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) principle. Prior to the searching or browsing …

Powerful methods are needed for interactive exploration and search from collections of
miscellaneous textual documents that are available in the electronic media. Searching from …

The emerging field of text mining applies methods from data mining and exploratory data
analysis to analyzing text collections and to conveying information to the user in an intuitive …

Powerful methods for interactive exploration and search from collections of free-form textual
documents are needed to manage the ever-increasing flood of digital information. In this …

New methods that are user-friendly and efficient are needed for guidanceamong the masses
of textual information available in the Internet and theWorld Wide Web. We have developed …

With the WEBSOM method a textual document collection may be organized onto a graphical
map display that provides an overview of the collection and facilitates interactive browsing …

The current availability of large collections of full-text documents in electronic form
emphasizes the need for intelligent information retrieval techniques. Especially in the rapidly …

Availability of large full-text document collections in electronic form has created a need for
intelligent information retrieval techniques, especially the expanding World Wide Web which …

While the focus of research concerning electronic document archives still is on information
retrieval, the importance of interactive exploration has been realized and is gaining …

Abstract The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) forms a nonlinear projection from a high-
dimensional data manifold onto a low-dimensional grid. A representative model of some …