I read about some research today that is both inspiring and exciting. I’ve always been hugely interested in how humans deal with words in their heads and finally we have some interesting answers. This made me play with keyword research and think about how (un)intuitive our methods are right n[...]
Posts Tagged ‘machine learning;’
July 3rd, 2009 - 12:58 am § in Information retrieval
Microsoft and Information Retrieval
With the advent of Bing and the fact that it works really well, people are starting to take Microsoft seriously in the search domain. The previous offerings were not as strong as Google and with Google being such a behemoth in search, it was going to take a fair bit to even cause a tremor. [...][...]
June 12th, 2009 - 3:37 pm § in Ranking algorithms
Papers on PageRank you should read
PageRank is a standard and much discussed topic in SEO and while it is relevant, the methods and techniques discussed are often not. There is a lot of discussion around the original PageRank formula which is relevant, but there have been many changes and improvements since 1998. If you are an SEO w[...]
April 30th, 2009 - 6:38 pm § in Tutorials
Text Mining tutorial
This is a fantastic presentation which takes you through all sorts of commonly used algorithms in text mining and for processing web data. Concepts and methods from machine learning are presented and there’s even some little stick men, so it’s gotta be good. Who is this for? Those of you[...]
April 12th, 2009 - 10:20 pm § in SEO & marketing
More LSI amusement
I wanted to get your opinion on how the Google algorithm actually works according to Leslie Rohde from “StomperNet”. He posted 2 videos, one about LSI and one about “Referential integrity”. “Warning – “Advanced” SEO Technique DOES NOT WORK” vi[...]
March 17th, 2009 - 10:46 am § in Information retrieval, Information/text analysis, Search engines, Tutorials
How does a search engine know what words mean?
Word sense disambiguation (WSD) belongs to the field of computational linguistics. It’s the research area dedicated to finding ways for machines to understand the meaning of words. More precisely, it’s about determining the word sense of a particular word in a context. This[...]
February 23rd, 2009 - 10:07 am § in Inspirations, Search engines
Frowning at Google
I am as many of you will know a Google supporter because I think that they’re always developing new and interesting things, and that they write good papers too. I like their search engine, and I’ve followed them since the beginning. I use other search engines too like Yahoo for examp[...]
