The Google patent entitled “Machine Translation for Query Expansion” (25/12/08) is a really interesting read.  It describes a really exciting new method for query expansion. “Query expansion” is when a users query is modified before the search is performed.  This is done[...]
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December 19th, 2008 - 8:05 pm § in Uncategorized
"A few Chirps about twitter"
“A few Chirps about twitter” gives valuable insight into how we use the application and why we use it. It is a paper written by Balachander krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs), Phillipa Gill (Uni Calgary) and Martin Arlitt (HP Labs – Uni Calgary) “Our goal is to characterize a no[...]
December 18th, 2008 - 8:50 pm § in Uncategorized
The web in 2018
“Welcome to web 3.0″ is a very cool and relaxed piece by Laurie Rowell for the ACM digital journal which you can freely access and subscribe to. Â She talks about web 3.0 having mobile devices at its center and draws some very interesting comments from the most respected in the domain. Â[...]
December 18th, 2008 - 2:35 am § in Uncategorized
Off Topic!
I felt like writing about something mildly off topic today, the “Chicken and the egg” so called problem. I read papers all the time where scientists have alluded to it, and it is of course all over marketing, advertising, management etc… “Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of a [...]
December 17th, 2008 - 10:37 pm § in Uncategorized
Ontology in a nutshell
We’re going on a lot about ontologies at the moment so it seems right to explain what they are and how they fit in with everything. Fabien Gandon has put together a brilliant presentation for you to read through. Â It will explain everything from the basics to lower level stuff. Â very accessi[...]
