Re: Corpora: Negative mutual information?

From: Miles Osborne (osborne@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 08 2001 - 14:39:46 MET

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a negative mi sounds like a bug. as far as i understand, mi can be
thought of as the kullback-liebler divergence between an independent
and a dependent model. kl diverengence is always postive.

(also check Manning + Schutze p 72)

Miles

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