EARS Changelog

From 1.0 to 1.05

• Collecting statistics about basic operations involved in the computations of the models
• See: Stat

• Examples for expertise retrieval on the UvT expert collection
• See: examples/uvt/README

• (Fixed) Uninitialized variables

From 0.9 to 1.0

• Document-entity associations
• (Added) Support for non-binary document-entity associations
• (Added) Document-entity associations are normalized
• (Fixed) Associations with 0 weight caused nan values for Model 1

• Smoothing parameter estimation for Model 1
• Computation speeded up
• Progress indicated

• Makefile for Visual Studio 2008 (EARS.vcproj)
• See also: CompilingWithVisualStudio

• Minor fixes:
• ears.cpp: default log level 'info' needs to be lowercased
• Raise error in case of unknown smoothing method