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Bing finally speaks up about its social search advantage; surprising, since the company has somehow been flying under the radar recently with the controversy surrounding Google privacy and social networking. Liz Gannes from AllThingsD.com interviewed Bing Search director Stefan Weitz regarding social data and search results in the article, “Bing–Which Has Deals With Facebook and [...]

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Although everyone working with product lifecycle management (PLM) suspected the numbers for 2011 would show a definite shift toward the cloud and new PLM solutions the numbers are finally proving it.  A recent press release titled, Arena Grows New Business 19% in 2011, on Marketwatch, tells of how a leader in cloud based services for [...]

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In “2012 – Ready or Not,” Mike Alsup, Senior Vice President at Gimmal Group, lays out a summary of 2011 and speculates on 2012 in the world of SharePoint and content management. Of course, 2011 was another growth year for the ubiquitous SharePoint platform. One estimate puts SharePoint users at 125,000,000 and counting. Although, Alsup [...]

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Google Plus or Google+ (yikes, a name with a reserved character) is supposed to be the new Google. Well, Google depends on ad revenue. Some Googlers will insist that the 95 percent of the revenue is NOT from advertising, but I don’t believe them. Sorry. Social networking accounts for one of every five minutes spent [...]

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Fierce Biotech IT announces, “EU Program Backs Linguamatics and ChemAxon’s Informatics Work.” The European Union’s Eurostars Program grants research and development funding to small and medium companies. The project being funded is, according to the companies, the first interactive text-mining system specifically for chemistry research. Writer Ryan McBride elaborates: The companies say that pharma and [...]

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Founded in 2000 as iNetze.com by chief research officer and director Robert Whitehair, River Logic Inc. has developed into an integrated business planning and modeling solution provider. Its applications are used to plan, track, forecast, and optimize budgets, costs, profits, and cash flow across suppliers, customers, and product lines. The company was one of six [...]

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In 1989, Marco Varone, along with Stefano Spaggiari and Paolo Lombardi, founded Expert System Italy. The three wanted to develop semantic software to extract knowledge from text by replicating human processes. Varone is the father of the company’s Cogito technology. Unlike traditional technologies based on keyword and statistics that can only guess the content of [...]

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More legal hassles for Google, this time over little flags for maps. Couldn’t this one have been handled with a couple of phone calls? Online Media Daily reports, “Google Sued Over Defunct ‘Tags’ Program.” The Google Tags program gave business owners the change to attach photos, coupons, and other information to their local listings. Rachel [...]

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Do you ever wish there was a checklist of things you need to know before you start a new SharePoint project, like building a web site?  This is when you usually turn to a search engine and hope for the best, but Fear and Loathing: Gonzo blogging from the Annie Leibovitz of the software development [...]

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SIGN IN SIGN UP Discovering URLs through user feedback Full : Text PDF Buy this Article Authors : Xiao Bai Yahoo Research , Barcelona , Spain B . Barla Cambazoglu Yahoo Research , Barcelona , Spain Flavio P . Junqueira Yahoo Research , Barcelona , Spain Published : in Proceeding CIKM 11 Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management ACM New York , NY USA 2011 table of contents ISBN : 978-1-4503-0717-8 doi 10.1145 2063576.2063592 2011 Article Bibliometrics Downloads 6 Weeks 65 Downloads 12 Months 65 Citation Count : 0 Tools and Resources Buy this Article Request Permissions TOC : Service Email RSS Save to Binder Export : Formats BibTeX EndNote ACM Ref Upcoming : Conference CIKM'12 : Share : Tags experimentation performance relevance feedback

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: The Noisy Channel ABOUT DISCLOSURE Follow dtunkelang HCIR 2011 : We Have Arrived Interview in Forbes : What is a Data Scientist RecSys 2011 Tutorial : Recommendations as a Conversation with the User October 31st , 2011 2 Comments General Last week , I had the privilege to present a tutorial at the 5th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems RecSys 2011 Given my passion for HCIR and my advocacy for transparency in recommender systems it shouldn’t surprise regular readers that I focused on both . Unfortunately the tutorial was not recorded , but I hope the slides above prove useful . I also encourage you to take a look at the other tutorials whose slides are posted on the conference . site If you enjoyed this post , make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed 2 responses so far 1

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SIGN IN SIGN UP Improving quality of training data for learning to rank using click-through data Full : Text PDF Buy this Article Authors : Jingfang Xu Microsoft Research Asia , Beijing , China Chuanliang Chen Beijing Normal University , Beijing , China Gu Xu Microsoft Research Asia , Beijing , China Hang Li Microsoft Research Asia , Beijing , China Elbio Renato Torres Abib Microsoft , Redmond , WA , USA 2010 Article Bibliometrics Downloads 6 Weeks 15 Downloads 12 Months 82 Citation Count : 1 Published : in Proceeding WSDM 10 Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining ACM New York , NY USA 2010 table of contents ISBN : 978-1-60558-889-6 doi 10.1145 1718487.1718509 Tools and Resources Buy this Article Request Permissions TOC : Service Email RSS Save

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Justin Zobel Professor and Head , Department of Computing and Information Systems the University of Melbourne Mail : Department of Computer Science Software Engineering , University of Melbourne , Parkville 3010, Australia . Office : Computing Information Systems , Level 4, ICT Building Phone : 61 3 8344 1505, email : jzobel at . unimelb.edu.au Some current activities Editor-in-Chief Asia Australasia International Journal of Information Retrieval Associate editor , ACM Transactions on Information Systems Associate editor , Information Processing Retrieval Associate editor , IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Theme leader , bioinformatics , VLSCI Lecturer , Research Methods semester 2 2011. A recent keynote at CIKM 2011 ACM Conference on Information Knowledge Management

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: Haystack Blog MIT CSAIL Research Group Website CIKM 2011 Keynote : User Interfaces that Entice People to Manage Better Information Filed under : News PIM Search Social Computing User Interfaces Visualization by David Karger on Tuesday , 25 October 2011 1 Comment Tags : CSAIL Today I gave a keynote at CIKM 2011 I argued that in addition to all our work on tools the process information for users , we should also be looking at tools that make people better able to apply their innate information processing talents for themselves . I talked about the following tools that reflext that idea , all of which are available for you to try out on the : web List.it a note-taking tool for information scraps capture Nb for social annotation discussion of class lecture notes Feedme for social content

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