Probabilistic latent semantic indexing
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
An evaluation of text retrieval methods for similarity search of multi-dimensional NMR-spectra
BIRD'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Bioinformatics research and development
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Searching and mining nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-spectra of naturally occurring products is an important task to investigate new potentially useful chemical compounds. We develop a set-based similarity function, which, however, does not sufficiently capture more abstract aspects of similarity. NMR-spectra are like documents, but consists of continuous multi-dimensional points instead of words. Probabilistic semantic indexing (PLSI) is an retrieval method, which learns hidden topics. We develop several mappings from continuous NMR-spectra to discrete text-like data. The new mappings include redundancies into the discrete data, which proofs helpful for the PLSI-model used afterwards. Our experiments show that PLSI, which is designed for text data created by humans, can effectively handle the mapped NMR-data originating from natural products. Additionally, PLSI combined with the new mappings is able to find meaningful ”topics” in the NMR-data.