Updated: 2010-09-02 06:44:08
One of my “real”, for-fee columns is about voice search. However, I wanted to capture this news item because it shows the niche influenza that is infecting search vendors at this time.
Dragon Search is a handy and popular iPhone search tool that allows users to use their voice to perform online searches. Users speak their [...]
Updated: 2010-09-02 06:33:01
Mango library catalog helps to search libraries for the particular book, video, CD, or an ISBN, ISSN, and call number using criteria’s like keywords, title, author, location, et cetera. The Mango statistics measure the end user’s interaction with the Web browser, e.g. text messaging, using the folders, or searching for articles. The Florida Center for [...]
Updated: 2010-09-02 06:23:53
I wrote about the shotgun marriage of a consulting firm getting a competitor to critique another firm’s products. Now I want to highlight Business Week’s essay / opinion piece “Why Companies Need Less Innovation.” The subtitle is, “Businesses need most of their workers to carry out their primary duties with enthusiasm and consistency.” Tough to [...]
Updated: 2010-09-02 06:12:42
Google has been sued by Oracle, as reported by the siliconvalley.com blog post “’Mo Money Mo Problems’ for Google”, for the heavy use of Java by Google in its Smartphone Android. Oracle that acquired the Sun Microsystems, which had developed Java, claims that Android is infringing on Java copyrights.
The Android in fact is popular because [...]
Updated: 2010-09-02 06:03:24
I was not too surprised when I read “MS Seeks Net Search Partner.” The story said that Microsoft wanted to find a search partner for the China market. I thought Microsoft had Bing.com and nifty translation, Unicode, and lots of engineers with considerable China-related experience. My knowledge of Chinese search is shallow, but what do [...]
Updated: 2010-09-02 06:01:43
I did some fooling around on the Language Computer Corp. Web site. The PR blitz is on for Swingly, the question-answering service that was featured in blogs and on the quite remarkable podcast hosted by Jason Calacanis. I listened to the Swingly segment but exited once that interview concluded. Instead of wallowing in the “ask [...]
Updated: 2010-09-01 22:04:58
I don’t know much beyond what I have read in “Google Making Extraordinary Counteroffers To Stop Flow Of Employees To Facebook.” The idea is a good one if you are a Googler, want to ride a rocket with a chance to land at Planet IPO, and are of interest to the Xooglers at Facebook. Heck, [...]
Updated: 2010-09-01 14:16:00
: Enterprise Search The business and technology of corporate search Home About Archives Subscribe Today's Search Term : Stemming Main September 01, 2010 Today's Search Term : hybrid search hybrid search : Synonyms fielded search , filtered search Related : Terms taxonomy parametric search faceted search scope of search A search that includes both full-text and traditional database search criteria . For example , a tech support person could look for installation errors full-text within a particular product line more like a traditional database field search By combining together the additional criteria of product='accounting software' the tech support person gets a more targeted scope of search , and is more likely to find the installation error they were looking for . Another example , an
Updated: 2010-09-01 06:55:50
Google continues to have a less-than-relaxing summer. Maybe life will improve when the leaves begin to fall? Almost lost in the buzz about Google’s new approach to Net Neutrality and the aftermath of the StreetView Wi-Fi privacy issue is Google Editions. Google has the resource to chase any market it wants. The e-reader market has [...]
Updated: 2010-09-01 06:44:08
Now the non-English speaking natives can get the RSS feeds in their own language. The mediacastermagazine.com recent news “RSS Feed Translation for Bloggers and Social Networking Firms” informs that the Toronto-based YYZ Translations will make available RSS feeds, translating them into 80 languages.
According to the article, the company claims about its translations, “will be more [...]
Updated: 2010-09-01 06:23:33
Yahoo Search now features Bing results. You have to look closely to find the image file, but it was there the last time I looked. So what’s happening at Yahoo search? I am not sure. I did notice a Yahoo blog post.
After the announcement of a Search Alliance with Microsoft’s Bing many people were left [...]
Updated: 2010-08-30 13:29:00
: Enterprise Search The business and technology of corporate search Home About Archives Subscribe Search Terms Main Today's Search Term : hybrid search August 30, 2010 Today's Search Term : Stemming stemming Related : Terms lemmatization normalize Search engines use stemming as a means to determine the root of a given written word . Using a program or algorithm all of the affixes to a word prefix and or suffix in the English language are removed , leaving the root word . By implementing the rules of the given language obstacles such as third- person singular present as cries is of the verb cry in the English language can be accurately indexed . Stemmers become harder to design as the rules of the target language becomes more complex . For example , some languages have more verb and pronoun
Updated: 2010-08-30 12:10:00
Enterprise Search The business and technology of corporate search Home About Archives Subscribe There's an Ant on your Southwest Leg Main Today's Search Term : Stemming August 30, 2010 Search Terms NIE maintains a Glossary Enterprise Search Terms related to the Business and Technology of Search on our site , which you can browse at your convenience . This is an active list , and we welcome your suggestions and additions Now we're going to select and post one of these each day or so in the blog . 0160 Some may be familiar but we hope some will be new to you . Enjoy Posted by Catherine at 05:10:00 AM in Business Enterprise search Search Term Definitions and Glossary TrackBack TrackBack URL for this : entry http : www.typepad.com services trackback 6a00d8341c84cf53ef0133f2a292fb970b Listed
Updated: 2010-08-29 18:36:00
: skip to main skip to sidebar Research on Search My study of machine learning , data mining , computational linguistics and information retrieval , towards the grand goal of developing the perfect search engine that understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want Larry Page Sunday , August 29, 2010 Chinese Anti-fraud Activist Attacked The New Yorker : Science Cop Mugged Christian Science Monitor : Attack on China whistle blower shows risk of unveiling corruption , fraud Science : Assailants Attack China's Science Watchdog CRI-English : Anti-fraud Activist Attacked in Beijing Fang Zhouzi Attacked near his Residence in Beijing Posted by Dell Zhang at 7:36 PM 0 comments : Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom About Me Dell Zhang View my
Updated: 2010-08-25 00:44:59
Adventures in Data Land.
Updated: 2010-08-23 18:18:53
About 4 years ago, I speculated that decision trees qualify as a deep learning algorithm because they can make decisions which are substantially nonlinear in the input representation. Ping Li has proved this correct, empirically at UAI by showing that boosted decision trees can beat deep belief networks on versions of Mnist which are [...]
Updated: 2010-08-23 01:39:07
There were several papers that seemed fairly interesting at KDD this year. The ones that caught my attention are:
Xin Jin, Mingyang Zhang, Nan Zhang, and Gautam Das, Versatile Publishing For Privacy Preservation. This paper provides a conservative method for safely determining which data is publishable from any complete source of information (for example, [...]
Updated: 2010-08-22 13:22:20
I've been playing around with time series data recently. Seeing the many forms that these take, I was planning a post describing a bestiary of time series. This, it turns out, is too much work, so here I have collected...
Updated: 2010-08-22 03:10:09
I’ve been wanting to attend the NYC ML Meetup for some time and hope to make it next week on the 25th. Rob Schapire is talking about “Playing Repeated Games”, which in my experience is far more relevant to machine learning than the title might indicate.
Updated: 2010-08-19 01:58:44
The next TriHUG meeting has been announced: Sept. 14. There will be two speakers: Wei Wei on Practical Hadoop Security and Me on Hadoop and Lucene and Solr. For more info and to RSVP, see Triangle Hadoop Users Group.
Updated: 2010-08-16 04:03:44
: SIGIR 2010 : Query Representation and Understanding Overview Proceedings Invited Speakers Accepted Papers Workshop Program Call For Papers Important Dates Organizers Program Committee Overview Understanding the user's intent or information need that underlies a query has long been recognized as a crucial part of effective information retrieval . Despite this , retrieval models , in general , have not focused on explicitly representing intent , and query processing has been limited to simple transformations such as stemming or spelling correction . With the recent availability of large amounts of data about user behavior and queries in web search logs , there has been an upsurge in interest in new approaches to query understanding and representing intent . This workshop has the goal of
Updated: 2010-08-11 14:09:00
Here is a good tutorial with Matlab examples about Statistical Estimation for Large Numbers of Rare Events (LNRE).
Updated: 2010-08-07 13:33:00
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Lousy Linguist Notes on linguistics and cognition Saturday , August 7, 2010 NLP Book Alias-i has just released a draft version of a book based on their NLP suit LingPipe Our goal is to produce something with a little more breadth and depth and much more narrative structure than the current LingPipe tutorials . Something that a relative Java and natural language processing novice could work through from beginning to end , coming out with a fairly comprehensive knowledge of LingPipe and a good overview of some aspects of natural language processing Enjoy Posted by Chris at 9:33 AM Labels : lingpipe NLP 0 comments : Alias-i has just released a draft version of a book based on their NLP suit LingPipe Our goal is to produce something with a little more breadth
