As promised, I am pleased to announce the publication of the Robertson-Sparck Jones Probabilistic Model Tutorial. 09-20-2016 Update: The tutorial … More
Month: March 2009
W3C 2009 Conference
Here is the final list conforming the 18 International Conference of the W3C, WWW2009, of which AIRWeb2009 is a workshop. … More
SEOs and Their IDF Myths: Part 3
In SEOs and their IDF Myths, we covered how many are mistaking the measure of term specificity known as Inverse … More
A CBR Sharing Search Engine System
I’m reading with great interest the paper Efficient Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis Using a Case-Based Experience Sharing System, by Mobyen … More
Centering Data in PCA
I received yesterday the following email from a reader (name removed). I am reproducing it since the discussion might be … More
IDF and Vector Space Models
I’m back from SIDIM XXIV. It was a great conference in honor of Professor Oscar Moreno, from the Gauss Research … More
SIDIM XXIV Conference
I am presenting at The Seminario Interuniversitario de Investigación en Ciencias Matemáticas (Interuniversity Seminar on Mathematical Sciences Research, SIDIM). This is … More
Vector Normalization with Excel
Unit vectors are frequently used in information retrieval and data mining studies because simplify further calculations and analyses. In the current issue … More
IRW-March-2009:Data Mining Dates
The current issue of the IRW newsletter is available now. In this issue: Featuring article: Data Mining Dates QA: Excel … More
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