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We consider an industrial context where we deal with a stream of unlabelled documents that become available progressively over time. Based on an adaptive incremental neural gas algorithm (AING), we propose a new stream-based semisupervised active learning method (A2ING) for document classification, which is able to actively query (from a human annotator) the class-labels of documents that are most informative for learning, according to an uncertainty measure. The method maintains a model as a dynamically evolving graph topology of labelled document-representatives that we call neurons. Experiments on different real datasets show that the proposed method requires on average only 36.3% of the incoming documents to be labelled, in order to learn a model which achieves an average gain of 2.15-3.22% in precision, compared to the traditional supervised learning with fully labelled training documents.

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In this survey, 105 papers related to interactive clustering were reviewed according to seven perspectives: (1) on what level is the interaction happening, (2) which interactive operations are involved, (3) how user feedback is incorporated, (4) how interactive clustering is evaluated, (5) which data and (6) which clustering methods have been used, and (7) what outlined challenges there are. This article serves as a comprehensive overview of the field and outlines the state of the art within the area as well as identifies challenges and future research needs.

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