Archive for June, 2007
POTW 6/3/07: “A Comparison of Event Models for Naive Bayes Text Classification” by Andrew McCallum and Kamal Nigam
Paper of the week for the week of June 3, 2007 is “A Comparison of event Models for Naive Bayes Text Classification” by Andrew McCallum and Kamal Nigam. This paper promises to shed some light on different ways of using bayesian classifiers. It might be useful to do some background reading on naive [...]
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POTW 5/21/07: Discussion of “A Study on Retrospective and On-Line Event Detection” by Yang, Pierce and Carbonell
Yang’s paper on on-line event detection (”A Study on Retrospective and On-Line Event Detection“) discusses the use of common text retrieval techniques to automatically detect events in news streams.
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