This is a list of my top 10 freely available papers on the topic of information retrieval. You will notice that they are rather old, but the techniques used described and the findings are not always dated. Those that dated are important nonetheless because they provide a good foundation to under[...]
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March 6th, 2009 - 10:37 am § in Information retrieval, Search engines
Search engines and long queries
Since we talked about long-tail queries earlier in the week, I was inspired to look a little more at query analysis and how search engines could deal with the troublesome long-tail ones. You know when every time you see a pair of shoes you really like and it’s always the same designer? Well [...]
September 8th, 2008 - 7:32 pm § in Uncategorized
Grand challenges for IR
There’s an article in the LA Times where Marissa Mayer from Google is interviewed about the last 10 years of Google. She states in the interview: “Search is an unsolved problem. We have a good 90 to 95% of the solution, but there is a lot to go in the remaining 10%.” She’[...]
