Discussion board for Assignment 3

Useful links:
The 2006 UCSD Data Mining Contest Home Page

C. Elkan.  Magical Thinking in Data Mining: Lessons From CoIL Challenge 2000

C. Elkan.  Deriving TF-IDF as a Fisher kernel (pdf).  To appear in Proceedings of the International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE'05), Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2005, pp. 296-301.

R. Madsen, D. Kauchak, and C. Elkan.  Modeling Word Burstiness Using the Dirichlet Distribution (pdf).  In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'05).

C. Elkan.  Using the Triangle Inequality to Accelerate k-Means (pdf).  In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'03), pp. 147-153.  Software available here.