About Manos
I work at ILPS, University of Amsterdam. My research revolves around mining social media, tracking content, and predicting user behavior. My interests lie in the field of Information Retrieval, and query modeling, but also in predictive analytics, and recommender systems (with a touch of Physics whenever possible).
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Linking Online News and Social Media
Update (24 Nov 2010): A pre-print version of the paper is now available: Linking Online News and Social Media (PDF), BibTex. The ground truth we used for our experiments is also available.
Our paper “Linking Online News and Social Media” with … Continue reading
KL-divergence of two documents
Let and be two probability distributions of a discrete random variable. If the following two properties hold:
when and both sum to 1
and for any such that and
then, we can define their KL-divergence as:
and … Continue reading
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