Graphical table of contents

This paper proposes a graphical table of contents (GTOC) that is functionally analogous to the table of contents. The proposed GTOC can be generated automatically from the text of documents. It visualizes document contents and relationships to allow easy access of underlying documents. It also provides various interactive tools to let the user explore the documents. Issues of how to generate such GTOC include how documents are indexed and organized, how the organized documents are visualized, and what interactive means are needed to provide necessary functionality of GTOC. These issues are discussed in this paper with a GTOC prototype based on Kohonen’s selforganizing featore map algorithm.

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