On Jan 9, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > Dave, > > Great work. As you may have seen, I have gone in and specialized the > definitions to make note of the Mahout and machine learning context that > they are used in here.
+1 > > Andrew, > > These terms often do have wikipedia definitions and these should definitely > be linked from the glossary entries, but the usage of these terms in this > project is often somewhat specialized. That specialized should be called > out in our glossary and contrasted with the more general use in the world > at large. +1. I often find it takes a bit to get from the Wikipedia explanation to the context of machine learning and/or Mahout, so good to have links to background reading (incl. Wikipedia) as well as definitions relevant to our approaches/discussions. > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Wang <[email protected]>wrote: > >> David, >> >> When i said wiki, I mean wikipedia. The terms, such as, "map reduce, >> TFIDF", in the Glossary you posted are already available in wikipedia. >> Maybe, for those terms, we just can put a URL ref in the Glossary. for >> other >> particular terms (the names of the algorithms implemented with mapreduce >> mode in Mahout ), we can explain them further. >> >> Hope this tips are helpfully! >> >> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 1:32 AM, David Stuart < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Andrew, >>> >>> Thanks for the help. Re the wiki I thought thats where I had created it >> is >>> there another place to put it? >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> On 9 Jan 2010, at 15:42, Andrew Wang wrote: >>> >>>> Hi,David, >>>> >>>> It sounds like a good idea to have somewhere to introduce the useful >>>> definiation mentioned in this maillist. However, the wiki maybe a >> better >>>> space to find this infomation. Anyway, i am new guy here, nice to find >>>> somebody else studing mahout at same time. Good luck! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:07 PM, David Stuart < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey Mahouters, >>>>> >>>>> Having been subscribed to this list for a couple of months now and in >>>>> trying to get my head around the some of the big brain discussions >> that >>> go >>>>> down here I have started a new Glossary page on the wiki. That will >>>>> hopefully shed some light on all of the acronyms that get used the >> email >>> and >>>>> to help newbies like myself with further reading etc. >>>>> As I see new terms I will try to add them (assuming I get the right >> ones >>> !) >>>>> but it would be useful if you could add references to papers or good >>>>> explanations >>>>> >>>>> Heres the link: >>> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Glossary >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> Dave >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> http://anqiang1900.blog.163.com/ >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> http://anqiang1900.blog.163.com/ >> > > > > -- > Ted Dunning, CTO > DeepDyve -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://www.lucidimagination.com/ Search the Lucene ecosystem using Solr/Lucene: http://www.lucidimagination.com/search
