Calculation of object similarity, for example through a distance function, is a common part of data mining and machine learning algorithms. This calculation is crucial for efficie...
Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) are regression models relating chemical structure to biological activity. Such models allow to make predictions for toxicologi...
This paper presents two metrics for the Nearest Neighbor Classifier that share the property of being adapted, i.e. learned, on a set of data. Both metrics can be used for similari...
Identification of transliterations is aimed at enriching multilingual lexicons and improving performance in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications including Cross ...
The growth of the web has directly influenced the increase in the availability of relational data. One of the key problems in mining such data is computing the similarity between o...
Pradeep Muthukrishnan, Dragomir R. Radev, Qiaozhu ...