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Visualization of Wikipedia categories using Self Organizing Maps shows an overview of categories and their relations, helping to narrow down search domains. Selecting particular neurons this approach enables retrieval of conceptually similar categories. Evaluation of neural activations indicates that they form coherent patterns that may be useful for building user interfaces for navigation over category structures.
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Szymański, J., Duch, W. (2012). Self Organizing Maps for Visualization of Categories. In: Huang, T., Zeng, Z., Li, C., Leung, C.S. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7663. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34475-6_20
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