Flexible intrinsic evaluation of hierarchical clustering for TDT

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 263-270

  Allan, James ^a   Feng, Ao ^a   Bolivar, Alvaro ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster Detection; Evaluation; Hierarchical Clustering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BROADCASTING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CLUSTER DETECTION; DECISION ERROR TRADEOFF (DEF); HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; TOPIC DETECTION AND TRACKING (TDT);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 18744379161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/956912.956914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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