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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Pampalk, Eliasa; * | Widmer, Gerharda; b | Chan, Alvinc
Affiliations: [a] Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI), Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] | [b] Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Vienna, Austria | [c] DSO National Laboratories, 20 Science Park Drive, Singapore 118230. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract: The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis which has been employed in a wide range of data mining applications. We present a novel approach to reveal the inherent hierarchical structure of data using multiple SOMs together with heuristics which optimize the stability. In particular, we address shortcomings of the Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map (GHSOM) regarding the decision which areas in the hierarchical structure need to be represented by a finer granularity and which areas do not. We introduce the Tension and Mapping Ratio extension to exploit specific characteristics of the SOM based on the topology preservation. As a main result, in contrast to the GHSOM, the inherent hierarchical structure of the data is revealed without requiring the user to define a threshold parameter which controls the map sizes of the individual SOMs. We evaluate our approach using data from real-world data mining projects in the music domain.
Keywords: exploratory data analysis, growing hierarchical self-organizing maps, tension and mapping ratio
DOI: 10.3233/IDA-2004-8203
Journal: Intelligent Data Analysis, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 131-149, 2004
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