Multi-level document classifications with self-organising maps

  • Authors:
  • Huilin Ye

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia

  • Venue:
  • IDEAL'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The Self-Organising Map (SOM) is widely used to classify document collections. Such classifications are usually coarse-grained and cannot accommodate accurate document retrieval. A document classification scheme based on Multi-level Nested Self-Organising Map (MNSOM) is proposed to solve the problem. An MNSOM consists of a top map and a set of nested maps organised at different levels. The clusters on the top map of an MNSOM are at a relatively general level achieving retrieval recall, and the nested maps further elaborate the clusters into more specific groups, thus enhancing retrieval precision. The MNSOM was tested by a software document collection. The experimental results reveal that the MNSOM significantly improved the retrieval performance in comparison with the single SOM based classification.