Filtering multilingual Web content using fuzzy logic and self-organizing maps

  • Authors:
  • Rowena Chau;Chung-Hsing Yeh

  • Affiliations:
  • Monash University, School of Business Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, 3800, Clayton, Victoria, Australia;Monash University, School of Business Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, 3800, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Neural Computing and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Effective multilingual information filtering is required to alleviate users’ burden of information overload resulting from the increasing flood of multilingual textual content available extensively over the World-Wide Web. This paper proposes a content-based self-organizing approach to multilingual information filtering using fuzzy logic and the self-organizing map. This approach screens and evaluates multilingual documents based on their semantic contents. Correlated multilingual documents are disseminated according to their corresponding themes or topics, thus enabling language-independent content-based information access efficiently and effectively. A Web-based multilingual online news-filtering system is developed to illustrate how the approach works.