'Information Retrieval' Category
POTW: 4/8/07: “Scatter/Gather: A Cluster-based Approach to Browsing Large Document Collections” by Cutting, et.al
This week’s paper is “Scatter/Gather: A Cluster-based Approach to Browsing Large Document Collections” by Cutting, Karger, Pedersen and Tukey. This is one of Doug Cutting’s older works on clustering, pre Lucene fame.
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POTW 3/26/07: “Lingo: Search Results Clustering Algorithm Based on Singular Value Decomposition” by Osinski, Stefanowski, and Weiss
Finally, a chance to finish up last week’s review on “Lingo” by Osinski, et. al. I first came across Lingo via the Carrot Search and it’s associated Carrot clustering engine. Mr. Weiss also chimes in on the Lucene mailing list from time to time when people ask about clustering Lucene results.
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POTW 3/19/07: Discussion of “An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System”
Better late than never is what they say… I’ve been absolutely slammed this week trying to get out a proposal and finish up my slides for ApacheCon Europe. So, here goes on the POTW for this week. If you recall, we are reading “An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System” by Brill, [...]
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POTW 3/19/07: “An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System” by Brill, et. al.
Paper of the Week for March 19, 2007 is “An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System” by Bill, Dumais and Banko. Let’s have a look at how Microsoft does QA, shall we?
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POTW 3/11/07: Discussion of “COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering”
This week we are digging deeper into the published work of Language Computer Corporation’s QA (they have an online demo on their home page) system by looking at COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering by Moldovan, Clark, Harabagiu and Maiorano. If you recall from a few weeks ago, the LCC system was the top [...]
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