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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:09:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul Jones <paul_jonez99@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: mahout PLSI (with some lucene, thrown in)
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Okay, have seen the difficulty (apart from the maths :-)). =0A=0AI guess "s=
imilar" can mean many things, i.e hypohyms, but also words such as hot...co=
ld are also "related", hence to solve my little problem I am wondering if t=
here is a easier way, i.e to use things like existing hyponyms relations wh=
ich exist (wordnet and the like) , and/or if they do not then I guess using=
 something similar to a "google distance measure" may help in "adding" new =
words to the system....=0A=0APaul=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A___________________________=
_____=0AFrom: Ted Dunning <ted.dunning@gmail.com>=0ATo: mahout-user@lucene.=
apache.org=0ASent: Tuesday, 23 June, 2009 18:00:12=0ASubject: Re: mahout PL=
SI (with some lucene, thrown in)=0A=0AYes.  This can be done.  It isn't nec=
essarily real simple to do.=0A=0ASee http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/s=
ummary?doi=3D10.1.1.56.7275 for an=0Aold (but still pretty good) example.=
=0A=0AOn Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Paul Jones <paul_jonez99@yahoo.co.uk=
>wrote:=0A=0A> Imagine we have crawled 100K webpages, and we have 100 pages=
 which show=0A> "red" and 100 which show "crimson" and then 100 which show =
both "red and=0A> crimson" is there a way to deduce that there maybe (albei=
t weak)=0A> relationship between red AND crimson. Of course we can pre-seed=
 this info,=0A> which then gets weighted by actual results.=0A>=0A=0A=0A=0A=
      
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