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.
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. 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
