Abstract:The WEBSOM methodology for building very large text archives has a very slow method for extracting meaningful unit labels. This is because the method computes for the relative frequencies of all the words of all the documents associated to each unit and then compares these to the relative frequencies of all the words of all the other units of the map. Since maps may have more than 100,000 units and the archive may contain up to 7 million documents, the existing WEBSOM method is not practical. A fast alternativ… Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.