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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

Z. Turk, T. Cerovsek, B. Martens:
"The Topics of CAAD: A Machine's Perspective";
Talk: CAAD futures Conference, Eindhoven; 07-08-2001 - 07-11-2001; in: "Proceedings of the Ninth CAAD Futures Conference, [Eindhoven]", Kluwer, Dordrecht/Boston/London (2001), ISBN: 0-7923-7023-6; 547 - 560.



English abstract:
Ontology of a scientific field typically includes a taxonomy that breaks up the
field into several topics. The break-up is present in the organisation of
information in books, libraries and on the Web. An on-line database of papers
related to CAAD called CUMINCAD was created and it includes over 3000
papers with abstracts. They are available through the search interface - one
knows an author or a keyword and can find the papers where such keyword or
author's name appears. Alternative interface would be through browsing
papers topic by topic. The papers, however, are not categorised. In this paper,
we present the efforts to use the machine learning and data mining techniques
to automatically group the papers into clusters and create a set of keywords
that would label a cluster. The hypothesis was that an algorithm would create
clusters of papers automatically and that the clusters would be similar to the
groupings a human would have made. We investigated several algorithms for
doing an analysis like that but were unable to prove the original hypothesis.
We conclude that it requires more than objective statistical analysis of the
words in abstracts to create an ontology of CAAD.

Created from the Publication Database of the Vienna University of Technology.