Monday, August 28, 2006

New Book on Web Mining

Web Data Mining - Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents and Usage Data, written by Bing Liu, is going to be published at the end of year 2006.

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Jon Kleinberg got one more prestigious award

The Nevanlinna Prize at the ICM2006 has been awarded to Jon Kleinberg. His work is on the mathematics of Information Networks.

Thursday, August 10, 2006

The Porter Stemming Algorithm

The 'official’ page for distribution of the Porter Stemming Algorithm has been revised and moved.

For Python (and other script languages), it is probably more efficient to use a C-implemented module (e.g., nltk.stemmer.porter) rather than taking the Python code straightforwardly.