'Machine Learning' Category
POTW 5/14/07: “Discovering Trends in Text Databases” by Lent et. al.
Ah, good to be back! This week’s paper is “Discovering Trends in Text Databases” by Brian Lent, Rakesh Agrawal and Ramakrishnan Srikant.
POTW to return next week
I will be returning to writing next week after a great ApacheCon Europe conference last week. My “Advanced Lucene” slides are available at http://www.cnlp.org/presentations/present.asp?show=conference Next week, I think I am going to start looking into things like event detection, etc. However, I am also considering looking into some non-NLP areas related to data mining, so [...]
Guest Contributor wanted for next 3 weeks
If you have an interest in writing on artificial intelligence, clustering, information retrieval or computer science in general and are interested in reviewing one or more articles over the coming three weeks on this forum, please contact me by leaving a comment on this post. All topics will be subject to my review for appropriateness, [...]
POTW 3/4/07: Answer Mining by Combining Extraction Techniques with Abductive Reasoning by Harabagiu, et. al.
This weeks paper, “Answer Mining by Combining Extraction Techniques with Abductive Reasoning“, lays out, at a high level, the capabilities of the highest performing QA system at TREC 2003, namely Language Computer Corporation’s QA system. The first section or two lay out the groundwork for the competition, much as was already done in the Voorhees [...]
POTW 2/11/07: Discussion of sections 5-8 of Minkov, et. al
POTW 2/11/07: Contextual Search and Name Disambiguation in Email Using Graphs Discussion of Sections 5 through 8 The remaining sections of this paper are discussions of two applications of the algorithms plus the body of related work and conclusions that can be drawn from the work. Section 5 gives the details on what corpora were [...]