Abstract
distances are computed in a multi-dimensional space. The axes of this space in principle relate to the features inherent in the input data. Usually, such features are chosen by neural network developers, thereby introducing a possible bias. A method of automatically generating feature sets is discussed, with specific reference to the categorisation of streams of free-text news items. The feature sets were generated by a procedure that automatically selects a group of keywords based on a lexico-semantic analysis. Three different types of text streams – headlines only, news summaries and full news items including the body of the text –have been categorised using Self-Organising Feature Maps (SOFM). A method for assessing the discrimination ability of a SOFM, based on Fisher’s Linear Discriminant Rule suggests that the maps trained on vectors related to summaries only provides a fairly accurate cluster when compared with vectors related to full text. The use of summaries as document surrogates for document categorisation is suggested.
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