Text classification with self-organizing maps: Some lessons learned

Neurocomputing

Volumn 21, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 61-77

  Merkl, Dieter ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Document classification; Hierarchical feature maps; Self organizing maps; Vector space model

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEXT PROCESSING;

SELF-ORGANIZING MAP (SOM); TEXT CLASSIFICATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOCUMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIBRARY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0344972930     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(98)00032-0     Document Type: Article

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