Detecting Geographic Associations in English Dialect Features in North America within a Visual Data Mining Environment Integrating Self-Organizing Maps

Self-Organising Maps: Applications in Geographic Information Science

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 87-106

  Thill, Jean Claude ^a   Kretzschmar, William A ^b   Casas, Irene ^c   Yao, Xiaobai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

American linguistic atlas Project (ALAP); Dialectologists and isoglosses; Knowledge discovery environment and SOM algorithm; LAMSAS data mining; Linguistic atlas of Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS); Self organizing maps (SOMs); SOM based data mining; Spatial analytic techniques and LAMSAS data

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA MINING; LINGUISTICS;

AMERICAN LINGUISTIC ATLAS PROJECT (ALAP); ANALYTIC TECHNIQUE; DIALECTOLOGISTS AND ISOGLOSSES; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS(SOMS); SOM ALGORITHMS; SOUTH ATLANTIC;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

EID: 59249098510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470021699.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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