Computationally Efficient Approximation ofa Probabilistic Model for Document Representationin the WEBSOM Full-Text Analysis Method

  • Authors:
  • S. Kaski

  • Affiliations:
  • Helsinki University of Technology, Neural Networks Research Centre, Rakentajanaukio 2 C, FIN-02150 Espoo, Finland. E-mail: Samuel.Kaski@hut.fi

  • Venue:
  • Neural Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

WEBSOM is a recently developed neural method for exploring full-textdocument collections, for information retrieval, and for informationfiltering. In WEBSOM the full-text documents are encoded as vectorsin a document space somewhat like in earlier information retrievalmethods, but in WEBSOM the document space is formed in anunsupervised manner using the Self-Organizing Map algorithm. In thisarticle the document representations the WEBSOM creates are shown tobe computationally efficient approximations of the results of acertain probabilistic model. The probabilistic model incorporatesinformation about the similarity of use of different words to takeinto account their semantic relations.