[ml] Information Retrieval talk

[Micah Pearlman]

That would be awesome!

Micah Pearlman
(biz) (415) 373-6034
(mob) (415) 637-6986
micahpearlman at gmail.com




On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Jared Dunne <jareddunne at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I was wondering if there is any interest in an Introduction to Information
> Retrieval talk on Wednesday, September 15.
>
> Topics would include:
> - Basics:
>   - Vector Space Model
>   - Cosine Similarity
>   - TF/IDF Term Weighting
>   - Precision & Recall Metrics
> - Collaborative Filtering
> - Clustering Analysis
>
> I could give a high level overview with some compelling examples to help
> wrap your brains around the math.  The basics are intuitive & easy to grasp,
> so I should have time to at least touch on everything above in an hour.
> After that we could do Q & A, delving deeper into some of the techniques or
> applying them to some of your domains of research/work.  (If you have ideas
> for the latter, please send me them so I can try to work them into my
> examples for the talk & slides.)
>
> Jared-
>
> _______________________________________________
> ml mailing list
> ml at lists.noisebridge.net
> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/ml
>
>