A Multilingual Hierarchy Mapping Method Based on GHSOM

With the increasing amount of multilingual texts in the Internet, multilingual text retrieval techniques have become an important research issue. However, the discovery of relationships between different languages remains an open problem. In this paper we propose a method, which applies the growing hierarchical self- organizing map (GHSOM) model, to discover knowledge from multilingual text documents. Multilingual parallel corpora were trained by the GHSOM to generate hierarchical feature maps. A discovery process is then applied on these maps to discover the relationships between documents of different languages. The relationships between keywords of different languages are also revealed. We conducted experiments on a set of Chinese-English bilingual parallel corpora to discover the relationships between documents of these languages.