News about SOM and WEBSOM

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SOM:

The second revised edition of the book "Self-Organizing Maps" (Teuvo
Kohonen, Springer, 1997) is available. See the page
http://james.hut.fi/nnrc/new_book.html for further information.

The collection of studies on the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) and
Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) now contains 2952 papers. The
bibliography can be accessed through the page
http://james.hut.fi/nnrc/refs/

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WEBSOM - Self-Organizing Map for Internet Exploration:

The WEBSOM method for organizing textual document collections has
undergone considerable developments. The clustering along with topics
has increased significantly. New demos can be accessed via the WEBSOM
home page

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

There are maps of

- over million documents from over 80 Usenet newsgroups
- the abstracts of WSOM'97 (Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps)
- three Usenet newsgroups separately: comp.ai.neural-nets, sci.lang,
  and sci.cognitive

A bibliography of WEBSOM papers can be found in the home page.
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