Abstract

Document organization is an important part of the broad field of Information Retrieval.  Since documents can contain similar content, organizing similar documents on some display can allow a user to gain more desired information.  Self-Organizing Maps present a useful method for performing this organization based on content.  In this paper, a learning agent-based approach is taken to organize an arbitrary set of HTML documents and display it to the user.  A system of four interchangeable agents is presented that promotes flexibility and extensibility.

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NOTE: this project uses an older version of JSOMap, available in jsom.jar.  

To execute the document organizer program, you need both docorg.jar and jsom.jar, and a jdk1.3 jvm (may work under jdk1.2, but hasn't been tested).  Then, just execute

java -cp docorg.jar;jsom.jar DocumentOrganizer

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Last modified: February 27, 2002