Evaluating Similarity Measures: A Large-Scale Study in…

Google TechTalk
June 21, 2006

Ellen Spertus is a Software Engineer at Google and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mills College, where she directs the graduate program in Interdisciplinary Computer Science. She earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from MIT, and has done research in parallel computing, text classification, information retrieval, and online communities. She is also known for her work on women and computing and various odd adventures, which have led to write-ups in The Weekly World News and other fine publications.

ABSTRACT
As online information services grow, so does the need and opportunity for automated tools to help users find information of…