Scientific netnews

NetCache NNTP (NetNews) Caching

Feature Reduction and Database Maintenance in NETNEWS Classification

We propose a statistical feature-reduction technique to lter out the most ambiguous articles in the training data for categorizing the NETNEWS articles. We also incorporate a batch updating scheme to periodically do maintenance on the term structures of the news database after training. The baseline method combines the terms of all the articles of each newsgroup in the training set to represent...

Meaning as Use: Transmission Fidelity and Evolution in NetNews

Gatherer & McEwan (1998) respond to our article (Pocklington & Best, 1997) with several apparently serious criticisms, concluding that our foray into cultural transmission theory is fundamentally flawed. Here we deal with each of their criticisms, in most cases by restating more precisely our model and claims. First we will outline some of the errors in their interpretation of our model and res...

Scientific Lectures

Introduction of Scientific Quality Index

The Scientific Quality Index (SQI) was proposed as a qualitative index in 2017 to evaluate the scientific outputs of researchers. In this article, in addition to introducing this index, the results of the most recent researches using this index are mentioned to provide the necessary background for related researches within the country.