“Epistemology” is the science of human knowledge. This area of philosophy looks at the origin, the structure and the validity of what we know, perceive or think. Formulating proper keywords when using a search engine and evaluating the results of that search involves the area of epistemo[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Information retrieval’
December 7th, 2009 - 8:21 pm § in Search engines
10 papers on personalization (PSearch)
Google announced this week that they would start personalising search results, even for users that are not signed into a Google service at the time. It has caused a consistent flow of posts from the blogosphere and quite a lot of comments as well which show that there is a gap in knowledge at some [[...]
November 16th, 2009 - 4:35 pm § in Search engines
Serendipity on the Web
I’ve been catching up on all my reading these last couple of weeks and I particularly liked “From X-Rays to Silly Putty via Uranus: Serendipity and its Role in Web Search”. It’s by Paul André from Southampton University together with Jaime Teevan and Susan Dumais from Micros[...]
April 8th, 2009 - 11:31 am § in Information retrieval, Tutorials
10 papers you need to read
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[...]
March 19th, 2009 - 4:23 pm § in Information retrieval
Information Extraction is not Information Retrieval
Here we will be covering mostly what information extraction (IE) is because it isn’t given nearly as much attention as information retrieval (IR). The differences are highlighted but for more in-depth information on IR check Mannings online book. I’ve provided an IR glossary and also a [...]
