Hi Isabel, Thanks for your proposal, we will work on the FastFeather schedule soon and let you know about it.
-Bertrand On Feb 18, 2008 8:12 AM, Isabel Drost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Proposal for a FastFeather Talk for the new Lucene sub project Mahout. > > =Title= > > Mahout - Bringing Machine Learning to Industrial Strength > > > =Short description= > > In recent years the amount of information available in digital form has > increased tremendously. Most of the information is available in unstructured > form, such as plain or html formatted texts. > > There is a growing need for tools that are capable of extracting information > from these texts, rank them according to user queries, separate them into > topics. A lot of valuable algorithms for extracting information from texts > have been published. > > The Mahout project, which is a Lucene sub project since January 2008, aims to > provide a commercial friendly, stable, and scalable suite of machine learning > tools. The framework will be designed for high throughput and be capable of > handling massive datasets. We focus on scalability and intend to provide > parallelised machine learning algorithm implementations based on the Hadoop > framework. > > This talk will present the very young project Mahout. The presentation will > give a brief overview of the project's history, the people behind Mahout and > our initial as well as long term goals. > > =Bio of speaker= > > After studying computer science Isabel Drost worked as research assistant at > the "Humboldt Universtät zu Berlin". While there Isabel was working on link > based clustering of documents and identification of search engine spam. In > 2005/6 she interned at Google for six months. Currently Isabel is employed at > the neofonie GmbH, a company building specialised search engines. > > > -- > The superfluous is very necessary. -- Voltaire > |\ _,,,---,,_ Web: <http://www.isabel-drost.de> > /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ > |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) (fL) IM: <xmpp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
