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Starting Probabilistic Document Retrieval

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Naren Sundar

I want to work through some papers on probabilistic document retrieval mainly to find out the state of things in this area with regards to the depth of infiltration of generative models in this domain. Note that literature refers to … Continue reading →

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Modeling atop a document representation

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Naren Sundar

The paper “DiscLDA: Discriminative Learning for Dimensionality Reduction and Classification” [1] describes a model that not only generates documents but learns them by associating each document with a label. The discrimination of a document is a function of the generative … Continue reading →

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