Research

LIBSVM Plus 2.9.1 is out

February 14, 2010

A minor release for LIBSVM Plus is out, just to introduce an experimental support for compiling the code on Windows machine. The patch has been provided by Vladislavs Dovgalecs, from the Université Bordeaux I in France. Please, refer to the “Windows” section within the README.plus file to know how to compile the library on Windows [...]

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LIBSVM Plus 2.9 is out

January 26, 2010

Back on the 1st of November 2009, Chang and Lin released the version 2.9 of the well known LIBSVM library. A couple of months laster, I have finally found the time to backport the changes in my LIBSVM Plus, now at the 2.9 version as well. The backport this time was very easy, because there [...]

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Spelling correction with Soundex

November 6, 2009

A few days ago Ian Barber wrote an article about the automated spelling correction. Today I had the time to read it. Good quality and great presentation as always. However, the first thing I noticed is that the solution presented by Ian was not making use of the Soundex algorithm at all, which seemed slightly [...]

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Techreport: Clustering and Classification in IR

August 9, 2009

I’ve just uploaded a technical report I wrote months ago, almost a year now. You can find it filed under my Publications page. The full title is “Clustering and classification in Information Retrieval: from standard techniques towards the state of the art“. I wrote this report when I was working for the SoLCo project at [...]

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