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 …

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

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 …

Describes the implementation of a system that is able to organize vast document collections
according to textual similarities. It is based on the self-organizing map (SOM) algorithm. As …

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 …

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 …

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 …

On January 19, 1996 we published in the Internet a demo of how to use Self-Organizing
Maps (SOMs) for the organization of large collections of full-text files. Later we added other …

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 …

Abstract Kohonen's Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is one of the most popular arti cial neural
network algorithms. Word category maps are SOMs that have been organized according to …