NIPS
2001
14 years 3 months ago
2001
This paper describes a clustering algorithm for vector quantizers using a "stochastic association model". It offers a new simple and powerful softmax adaptation rule. Th...
LWA
2004
14 years 3 months ago
2004
We study methods to initialize or bias different clustering methods using prior information about the "importance" of a keyword w.r.t. the whole document collection or a...
EMNLP
2007
14 years 3 months ago
2007
In this paper, we address a unique problem in Chinese language processing and report on our study on extending a Chinese thesaurus with region-specific words, mostly from the fina...
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
In this paper we explore the effectiveness of three clustering methods used to perform word image indexing. The three methods are: the Self-Organazing Map (SOM), the Growing Hiera...
CLEF
2008
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper presents the first participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Photo Retrieval task at Image CLEF 2008. Our system uses Lucene for text indexing and LIRE for ...
VLDB
1994
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
1994
ACM
Spatial data mining is the discovery of interesting relationships and characteristics that may exist implicitly in spatial databases. In this paper, we explore whether clustering ...
ISPA
2005
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. There exist numerous algorithms that cluster data-points from largescale genomic experiments such as sequencing, gene-expression and proteomics. Such algorithms may emplo...
ISBRA
2007
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
Clustering has been one of the most popular approaches used in gene expression data analysis. A clustering method is typically used to partition genes according to their similarity...
AUSDM
2007
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper reports the results of feature reduction in the analysis of a population based dataset for which there were no specific target variables. All attributes were assessed a...
ICDM
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2008
IEEE
Clustering is an active research topic in data mining and different methods have been proposed in the literature. Most of these methods are based on the use of a distance measure ...