Self organizing maps for visualization of categories

  • Authors:
  • Julian Szymański;Włodzisław Duch

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Systems Architecture, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland;Department of Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland,School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • ICONIP'12 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Neural Information Processing - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Visualization of Wikipedia categories using Self Organizing Maps shows an overview of categories and their relations, helping to narrow down search domains. Selecting particular neurons this approach enables retrieval of conceptually similar categories. Evaluation of neural activations indicates that they form coherent patterns that may be useful for building user interfaces for navigation over category structures.