Department of Software Technology
Vienna University of Technology

Selected Publications

• 2001
  • A. Rauber, M. Dittenbach, and D. Merkl: Towards Automatic Content-Based Organization of Multilingual Digital Libraries: An English, French and German View of the Russian Information Agency Nowosti News In: Proceedings of the Third All-Russian Scientific Conference "Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods And Technologies, Digital Collections" (RCDL01) Petrozavodsk, Russia, September 11-13, 2001.
    Abstract, PDF (275 KB), BibTeX

  • A. Rauber, and M. Frühwirth: Automatically Analyzing and Organizing Music Archives In: Proceedings of the 5. European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2001), Sept. 4-8 2001, Darmstadt, Germany, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2001.
    Abstract, HTML, gnu-zipped Postscript (245 KB), PDF (275 KB), BibTeX

  • M. Dittenbach, and A. Rauber, and D. Merkl: Business, Culture, Politics, and Sports -- How to Find Your Way Through a Bulk of News? On Content-Based Hierarchical Structuring and Organization of Large Document Archives In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Sept. 3-7 2001, Munich, Germany, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2001.
    Abstract, HTML, gnu-zipped Postscript (160 KB), PDF (197 KB), BibTeX

  • A. Rauber, and A. Müller-Kögler: Integrating Automatic Genre Analysis into Digital Libraries In: Fox, E.A., and Borgman, C.L. (eds.), Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2001, June 24 - 28 2001, Roanoke, VA, pp.1-10, ACM, 2001.
    Abstract, HTML, gnu-zipped Postscript (669 KB), PDF (609 KB), BibTeX

• 2000
  • A. Rauber, M. Dittenbach and D. Merkl: Automatically Detecting and Organizing Documents into Topic Hierarchies: A Neural Network Based Approach to Bookshelf Creation and Arrangement. In: Proceedings of the 4rd European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries (ECDL2000), September 18. - 20. 2000, Lisboa, Portugal.
    Abstract, HTML, gnu-zipped Postscript (110 KB), PDF (126 KB), BibTeX

  • M. Dittenbach, D. Merkl, and A. Rauber: The Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map. In: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2000 (IJCNN'2000), 24. - 27. 7. 2000, Como, Italy, 2000.
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  • A. Rauber, P. Tomsich, and D. Merkl. parSOM: A Parallel Implementation of the Self-Organizing Map Exploiting Cache Effects: Making the SOM Fit for Interactive High-Performance Data Analysis. In: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2000 (IJCNN'2000), 24. - 27. 7. 2000, Como, Italy, 2000.
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  • D. Merkl and A. Rauber: Document Classification with Unsupervised Neural Networks, in Fabio Crestani, Gabriella Pasi (Eds.), Soft Computing in Information Retrieval, Physica Verlag & Co, ISBN:3790812994, pp. 102 - 121,Germany, 2000.
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  • A. Rauber and H. Bina. Visualizing Electronic Document Repositories: Drawing Books and Papers in a Digital Library. Proceedings of the 5. IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Visual Database Systems (VDB5), May 10. - 12. 2000, Fukuoka, Japan, Advances in Visual Information Management - Visual Database Systems, pp. 95 - 114, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2000.
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  • M. Dittenbach, D. Merkl and A. Rauber. Using Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps for Document Classification Proceedings of the 8. European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN'2000) April 26-28, 2000, Bruges, Belgium.
    HTML, gnu-zipped Postscript (202 KB), PDF (655 KB)

  • D. Merkl and A. Rauber. Uncovering the Hierarchical Structure of Text Archives by Using an Unsupervised Neural Network with Adaptive Architecture. Proceedings of the 4th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2000), April 18. - 20. 2000, Kyoto, Japan, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS-LNAI 1805), pp. 384 - 395, Springer, Germany, 2000.
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• 1999
  • The SOMLib Digital Library System. A.~Rauber and D.~Merkl
    Proceedings of the 3rd Europ. Conf. on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'99), Paris, France, September 22. - 24. 1999, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 1696), Springer, 1999.
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  • SOMLib: A Digital Library System Based on Neural Networks, A.~Rauber and D.~Merkl
    Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Digital Libraries (DL'99), Berkeley, CA, August 11 - 14, 1999
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  • A Metaphor Graphics Based Representation of Digital Libraries on the World Wide Web: Using the libViewer to Make Metadata Visible, A.~Rauber and H.~Bina
    Proc. 10th International Conf. on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA99), Workshop on Web-based Information Visualization (WebVis99), 23. - 27. Sept. 1999, Florence, Italy; ieee Press.
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  • LabelSOM: On the Labeling of Self-Organizing Maps, A.~Rauber
    Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'99), Washington, DC, July 10 - 16, 1999.
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  • Automatic Labeling of Self-Organizing Maps: Making a Treasure-Map Reveal its Secrets, A.~Rauber, D.~Merkl
    Proceedings of the 3. Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining} (PAKDD'99), Bejing, China, April 26--28, 1999.
    LNCS / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 1574, pp. 228 - 237, Springer Verlag
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• 1998
  • Organization of Distributed Digital Libraries: A Neural Network-based Approach, A.~Rauber and D.~Merkl
    Proc. Intl. Symposium on Intelligent Data Engineering and Learning (IDEAL98), Hong Kong, 1998
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  • Creating an Order in Distributed Digital Libraries by Integrating Independent Self-Organizing Maps, A.~Rauber and D.~Merkl
    Proc. International Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN98), Skövde, Sweden, 1998
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  • CIA's view of the world and what neural networks learn from it: A comparison of geographical document space representation metaphors, D.~Merkl and A.~Rauber
    Proc. 9th International Conf. on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA98), Vienna, Austria, 1998
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  • SOMLib: A Distributed Digital Library System Based on Self-Organizing Maps, A.~Rauber
    Proc 10th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets (WIRN98), Vietri sul Mare, Italy, 1998.
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  • Finding Structure in Text Archives, A.~Rauber and D.~Merkl
    Proc European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN98), Bruges, Belgium, 1998
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  • Text Data Mining, D.~Merkl
    in: R. Dale, H. Moisl, and H. Somers (Eds.). A Handbook of Natural Language Processing: Techniques and Applications for the Processing of Language as Text. Marcel Dekker. New York. 1998.
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• 1997
  • Lessons Learned in Text Document Classification, D.~Merkl
    Proceedings of the Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM'97). Espoo. Finland. June 4-6. 1997.
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  • Exploration of Document Collections with Self-Organizing Maps: A Novel Approach to Similarity Representation, D.~Merkl
    Proceedings of the 1st European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PKDD'97). Trondheim. Norway. June 25-27. 1997.
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  • Exploration of Text Collections with Hierarchical Feature Maps, D.~Merkl Proceedings of the 20th Annual Int'l ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'97). Philadelphia, PA. July 27-31. 1997.
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  • Exploration of Legal Text Corpora with Hierarchical Neural Networks: A Guided Tour in Public International Law, D.~Merkl and E. Schweighofer
    Proceedings of the 6th Int'l Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL'97). Melbourne. Australia. June 30 - July 3. 1997.
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  • En Route to Data Mining in Legal Text Corpora: Clustering, Neural Computation, and International Treaties, D.~Merkl and E. Schweighofer
    Proceedings of the 8th Int'l Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'97). Toulouse. France. 1997.
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