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Thesaurus as a Complex Network
I came across Thesaurus as a complex network, a fascinating 2003 paper written by Adriano de Jesus Holanda, Ivan Torres Pisa, Osame Kinouchi, Alexandre Souto Martinez and Evandro Eduardo Seron Ruiz fr… more →
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Thesaurus as a Complex Network
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E. Garcia wrote 3 months ago: I came across Thesaurus as a complex network, a fascinating 2003 paper written by Adriano de Jesus H … more →
Vector Normalization with Excel - Part II
E. Garcia wrote 7 months ago: Back in March, we explained how to normalize column vectors with Excel. But, what about normalizing … more →
Why IDF is Expressed Using Logs
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E. Garcia wrote 7 months ago: Recently a known SEO (name reserved) inquired me about some aspects of IDF (Inverse Document Frequen … more →
RSJ-PM: Probabilistic Model Tutorial
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E. Garcia wrote 8 months ago: As promised, I am pleased to announce the publication of the Robertson-Sparck Jones Probabilistic Mo … more →
SEOs and Their IDF Myths: Part 3
E. Garcia wrote 8 months ago: In SEOs and their IDF Myths, we covered how many are mistaking the measure of term specificity known … more →
IDF and Vector Space Models
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E. Garcia wrote 8 months ago: I’m back from SIDIM XXIV. It was a great conference in honor of Professor Oscar Moreno, from t … more →
Vector Normalization with Excel
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E. Garcia wrote 9 months ago: Unit vectors are frequently used in information retrieval and data mining studies because simplify f … more →
Answers to IR Quiz
E. Garcia wrote 1 year ago: Answers to the IR Quiz are given below: Term Independence Assumption: If k1 and k2 are statistically … more →
IR Quiz
E. Garcia wrote 1 year ago: Here is a question I included during the final examination of the Search Engines Architecture course … more →
PCA and SPCA Tutorial
E. Garcia wrote 1 year ago: As promised, the PCA and SPCA Tutorial is now available at Mi Islita. I wrote this tutorial for two … more →
Search Engines Architecture Week 2
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E. Garcia wrote 1 year ago: Week 2 Agenda Lecture Session Visualizing Matrix Operations SVD and PCA Review If we have time, I wi … more →
IRW-2008-2 Sneak Preview
E. Garcia wrote 1 year ago: Masking Effects in Similarity Matrices: Topics with strong similarities can mask other topics, makin … more →
Back Mapping for the Masses
E. Garcia wrote 1 year ago: In a recent tutorial on association and scalar clusters, http://www.miislita.com/information-retriev … more →
A Case-Based Experience Sharing Search Engine
E. Garcia wrote 2 years ago: Mobyen Ahmed, Erik Olsson, Peter Funk, Ning Xiong from Department of Computer Science and Electronic … more →
Being Referenced Without Being Referenced
E. Garcia wrote 2 years ago: I have the honor of being “referenced” by Lau Patrick from ETH’s Databases and Inf … more →
Levenshtein Edit-Distance Based Tool
E. Garcia wrote 2 years ago: As announced, the Levenshtein Edit-Distance Based Tool is now available at Mi Islita.com site. The t … more →
Upcoming Tool on Edit Distances
E. Garcia wrote 2 years ago: I’m working on a tool for computing edit distances (number of insertions, deletions, and subst … more →
Being Quoted at University of Campinas, Brazil
E. Garcia wrote 2 years ago: More universities are quoting our tutorials. I’m happy to learn that these are read even in th … more →
Our Tutorials, Required Readings at University of Maryland
E. Garcia wrote 2 years ago: Yan Qu over at the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland taughts the graduate cours … more →
