Updated: 2012-02-29 16:11:46
For graduate students, the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges program including in machine learning is on again, due March 9. The application is easy and the $5K award is high quality “no strings attached” funding. Consider submitting.
Those in Washington DC, Philadelphia, and New York, may consider attending the Franklin Institute Symposium April 25 [...]
Updated: 2012-02-29 14:09:45
Better grab your brolly and your gloves, readers. Cincinnati, Ohio-based gloves and rainwear retailer totes ISOTONER has announced that its conversion rate and revenue per visit has more than doubled after implementing SLI Systems’ site search. The article, “totes-ISOTONER Adds More to the Bottom Line with Full-Service Site Search From SLI Systems,” tells us about [...]
Updated: 2012-02-29 11:00:41
I remember a high school history teacher explaining the Middle Ages. The idea was that there was a king, some earls and barons, and lots of serfs. The idea was a harbinger of upper, middle, and lower class. The notion of the Great Chain of Being was tossed in to make sure the rats carrying [...]
Updated: 2012-02-29 05:16:40
How useful are software, plugins, and other SharePoint tools if users fail to adopt them? Useless! Forgive the bad pun (though admit you did smile), but I found an interesting post from SharePoint Joel called, “Can Software Increase User Adoption?” He described a Twitter conversation he had with another SharePoint expert about how software from IVPs can [...]
Updated: 2012-02-29 05:14:53
Boeing, one of the top manufacturers of the world’s aircrafts announced recently that they were extending a contract with Siemens for PLM services. OnWindows covered the story in the article, Boeing enhances PLM capabilities, explaining how PLM solutions are the only answer to most problems facing global companies like Boeing. As Nancy Baily, Boeing VP [...]
Updated: 2012-02-29 05:14:29
Enough is written on SharePoint 2010 that we all know by now that SharePoint is not an intuitive creature. James Mullan eases the strain by offering, “SharePoint 2010 Do’s and Don’ts.” Mullan sets the context for his suggestions: SharePoint use will vary dependent on who you talk to, but for the most part organisations are [...]
Updated: 2012-02-29 05:10:57
As the economy struggles to recover, many of our educational institutions are forced to bear the brunt of budget cuts. A recent tumblr blog post entitled “Save the Libraries. Cut University Funding Instead” responds to the recent decision made by California’s state government to cut library funding rather than raise taxes. The post argues that [...]
Updated: 2012-02-29 05:08:01
InfoWorld’s David Linthicum–cloud consultant, “real” expert, and podcaster–recently reported on cloud computing in the article, “Big Data and the Cloud: a Far From Perfect Fit.” According to the article, while big data and cloud computing have some similarities you shouldn’t think that any old enterprise search startup with cloud offerings, generally in the public cloud, [...]
Updated: 2012-02-28 05:57:41
SharePoint Semantics continually delivers engaging and informative posts that share recent articles, upcoming events, and best practices. This past week was no different. In the vein of SharePoint trouble shooting, Ken Toth shared a recent article in the post “Troubleshoot Your Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Farm Before Trouble Happens.” Toth states: “Jason Himmelstein begins with the [...]
Updated: 2012-02-28 05:20:51
Before businesses adopt SharePoint, they need to decide which files to transfer over to the collaborative content platform. The content on the shared file networks are the most logical ones to migrate, but what about the personal files on servers aka the H drive? Mike Herrity on SharePointEduTech (SharePoint and Technology Blog) wrote about the best [...]
Updated: 2012-02-17 00:26:29
Information Retrieval Wiki : Search Login FrontPage RecentChanges FindPage HelpContents Terrier DOTGOV2 Show Parent Immutable Page Show Changes Get Info More : Actions Show Raw Text Show Print View Delete Cache Attachments Check Spelling Show Like Pages Show Local Site Map Rename Page Delete Page Terrier DOTGOV2 DOTGOV2 DOTGOV2 is a Web crawl of the gov US government websites , and was used by the TREC Terabyte track 2004-2006, and the Million query track 2007-2008. It can be obtained from the University of Glasgow The topics and qrels are available from the TREC website : 2004 Terabyte 2005 Terabyte 2006 Terabyte 2007 Million 2008 Million Indexing the DOTGOV2 collection is easy with Terrier . No terrier.properties are required to be altered from the default created by trec_setup . However
