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using the JSON perl mod

I just thought I’d make a quick blog post on how to use the JSON perl mod. Why use JSON when we have XML, I’ll leave that to Russ or Richard, but to make a long story short, easier object handling for the projected javascript driven DVLF.So, the perl J…

Mapping Encyclopédie classes of knowledge to LDA generated topics

As was described in my previous blog entry, I’ve been working on comparing the results given by LDA generated topics with the classes of knowledge identified by the philosophes in the Encyclopédie. My initial experiment was to try to see if out of 500…

Do LDA generated topics match human identified topics?

I’ve been experimenting lately on how LDA generated topics and the Encyclopédie classes of knowledge match. The experiment was conducted in the following way:- I chose 100 classes of knowledge in the Encyclopédie, and picked 50 articles of each.- I t…

back to comparing similar documents

I mentioned a little while ago some work I did on comparing one document with the rest of the corpus it belongs to ( the examples I used in that blog post will not give the same results anymore, the results might not be as good, I haven’t optimized the…