A novel SOM-based approach to free-text mining

[Krista Lagus]

A novel SOM-based approach to free-text mining                   19.1.1996
  -- WEBSOM demo for newsgroup exploration


Welcome to test the document exploration tool WEBSOM. An ordered map
of the information space is provided: similar documents lie near each
other on the map. The order helps in finding related documents once
any interesting document is found.

Currently a demo for browsing the 4900 articles that have appeared in
the Usenet newsgroup comp.ai.neural-nets since 19.6.1995 is available
in the WWW address

	http://websom.hut.fi/websom/

The WEBSOM home pages also contain an article describing the WEBSOM
method and documentation of the demo. The demonstration requires a
graphical WWW browser (such as Mosaic or Netscape), but the
documentation can be read also with other browsers.


The WEBSOM team:

Timo Honkela
Samuel Kaski
Krista Lagus
Teuvo Kohonen

Helsinki University of Technology
Neural Networks Research Centre
Rakentajanaukio 2C
FIN-02150 Espoo
Finland

email: websom at websom.hut.fi