Reading Club Similarity (SS 2008)

General Information

• For a general course description please read the corresponding pages from the WIAI module guide.
• You find administrative information at UnivIS.
• Participants should sign up for the course in the virtual campus.
• This course addresses master students and doctoral students.
• Together with Susanne Rässler (Statistik)

Literature

Introduction:

• N. Goodman (1972). Seven strictures on similarity. In N. Goodman (Ed.), Problems and Projects (pp. 437-446). New York: Bobbs-Merill.
• Eckes, T. (1991). Psychologie der Begriffe. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
• Eckes, T. und Rossbach, H. (1980). Clusteranalysen. Kohlhammer.

Further literature, esp. recent articels to special topics will be proposed at the first session.

Proposal of Topics

• Philosophical Aspcets of Similarity
• Psychological Theories of Similarity and Categorization
• Similarity Metrics 
• Approaches to Assesment and Measurement of Similarity
• Clusteranalyses
• Multidimensional Scaling
• Measures for Tree and Graph Similarity 
• Similarity and Analogy
• Classifiyer Learning

Talks

(Note that most slides are only available via the VC course page)

• Stefanie Sieber: Einführung in die Ähnlichkeitsmessung [pdf]
• Sebastian Matyas: Clusteranalyse [ppt]
• Daniel Blank: Multidimensionale Skalierung im Bildretrieval
• Adrian Hub: Vergleich von Distanzmaßen
• Martin Hofmann: Strukturähnlichkeit [pdf]
• Sebastian Matyas: Psychologische Grundlagen von Ähnlichkeitsurteilen [pdf]

Previous Topics

• SS 2007: Automated Theorem Proving with Isabelle (together with Theoretical Computer Science) [Archiv Page]
• SS 2006: Support Vector Machines [Archiv Page]

Support Vector Machines  [SS 06], Deductive Theorem Proving [SS 07]