When IDF is not enough

I came across an interesting Collection of Ambiguous or Inconsistent/Incomplete Statements compiled by Jeff Gray, which illustrates that IDF as …

Glottochronology: Part IV

Please read Part I, Part II, and Part III before reading this post. I would like to end this series …

Glottochronology: Part III

Please read Part I and Part II before proceeding with this post. Applications to cultures Sandefur provides the following example: Suppose …

Glottochronology: Part II

Please read Glottochronology Part I before reading this post. Language dating forecasts are based on independence assumptions. Let A1 and A2 be …

AND 2009 Conference

L. Venkata Subramaniam, PhD, Manager – Information Processing and Analytics, IBM India Research Lab http://lvs004.googlepages.com sent us email with some …

Glottochronology: Part I

Although not back-to-back during this week I will be posting on glottochronology. Glottochronology is a combination of greek terms which …

When newspapers stick to spam marketing

That’s what local newspapers in Puerto Rico are doing: insisting in old spam marketing tactics. Wake up local web masters. …

Building a Query Reduction Search Engine

As part of ongoing research, I’m building a search engine with ondemand query reduction capabilities.  To our knowledge, none of the current …

Time Series Semantics

The title of this post might be a bit confusing, but we couldn’t find a better choice of words. The …

IRW: Data Mining Credit Cards

The current issue of IR Watch – The Newsletter will be available during the day. It consists of the following …