Very large two-level SOM for the browsing of newsgroups (original) (raw)

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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 newsgroups to the demo. It can be found at the address http://websom.hut.fi/websom/. In the present paper we describe the main features of this system, called the WEBSOM, as well as some newer developments of it.

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  1. Neural Networks Research Centre, Helsinki University of Technology, Rakentajanaukio 2 C, FIN-02150, Espoo, Finland
    Teuvo Kohonen, Samuel Kaski, Krista Lagus & Timo Honkela

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  1. Teuvo Kohonen
  2. Samuel Kaski
  3. Krista Lagus
  4. Timo Honkela

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Christoph von der Malsburg Werner von Seelen Jan C. Vorbrüggen Bernhard Sendhoff

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Kohonen, T., Kaski, S., Lagus, K., Honkela, T. (1996). Very large two-level SOM for the browsing of newsgroups. In: von der Malsburg, C., von Seelen, W., Vorbrüggen, J.C., Sendhoff, B. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN 96. ICANN 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61510-5\_48

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