Reflections from IDF 2017

Editorial 2017: Reflections and Current Insights

                               ...

UniNE at CLEF 2017: TF-IDF and Deep-Learning for Author Profiling

This paper describes and evaluates a strategy for author profiling using TF-IDF and a Deep-Learning model based on Convolutional Neural Networks. We applied this strategy to the author profiling task of the PAN17 challenge and show that it can be applied to different languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic). As features, we suggest using a simple cleaning method for both models, and ...

From the Chairman of IDF Standing Committee on Animal Health

The IDF Standing Committee on Animal Health has produced the IDF Animal Health Newsletter for a third successive year. The Newsletter is available electronically and in paper copy. The primary aim of the publication is to provide the IDF community with knowledge of current activities in the field of animal health. However, it also offers a forum in which short descriptions of recent research, i...

Inverse Document Frequency (IDF): A Measure of Deviations from Poisson

Low frequency words tend to be rich in content, and vice versa. But not all equally frequent words are equally mean!ngful. We will use inverse document frequency (IDF), a quantity borrowed from Information Retrieval, to distinguish words like somewhat and boycott. Both somewhat and boycott appeared approximately 1000 times in a corpus of 1989 Associated Press articles, but boycott is a better k...

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