Electronic editor: automatic content-based sequential compilation of newspaper articles
New information carriers, such as electronic books and MP3 players, can be utilized for displaying customized content. Using these carriers, however, only browsing forwards and backwards is easy. The crucial question in making these carriers user-friendly is then to construct an order of presentation that enhances readability. We have developed a tool that uses the self-organizing map algorithm of Kohonen to automatically organize a collection of text articles into a meaningful content-based sequential order. The article sequence constructed by the system was compared to the sequences made by 21 humans, and in our small-scale case study they were comparable.
content compilation order self-organizing map