We could argue until the cows came home as which 2 main elements of SEO were the core components. I’ll cut to the chase and ask you to consider content and links alone this time round. They are (arguably) the most important two variables present in the SEO diagram at this time. It makes sense [...]
Posts Tagged ‘machine translation;’
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 [...]
November 27th, 2008 - 1:54 am § in Uncategorized
Google, my backend system
Right now, we’re the web equivalent of the horse and cart. We have invented the wheel, and domesticated animals and this has revolutionised our existence, especially the way in which we do business, but…I don’t see Ferrari’s, E-type Jags or anything like that right now in w[...]
November 11th, 2008 - 11:42 pm § in Uncategorized
About machine translation
Machine translation (MT) is all about translating text (or speech even) from one language to another. It’s part of computational linguistics, and uses a lot of NLP methods as well as statistical methods, rule-based methods, corpus techniques, some AI too, amongst other things. Apparently i[...]
November 11th, 2008 - 10:25 pm § in Uncategorized
Google translate tried and tested
Google has added it’s translating tool to Google Reader. This means that now you can read feeds in different languages, directly translated within the Google reader framework. The performance is ok from French to English, I’m a native speaker of both, and my first degree was in trans[...]
October 10th, 2008 - 8:39 pm § in Uncategorized
Degree needed to be an SEO?
Jane Copland over at SEO Chicks wrote a thought provoking article on whether SEO degree programs are needed, and whether they would be of any help at all. I commented over there but I thought I’d give my take on it here. There was a post about it at SEW. I commented there too. I [...][...]
September 30th, 2008 - 11:00 pm § in Uncategorized
SEO and CLIR
CLIR, “Cross Language Information Retrieval” (also referred to many names as well as “translingual”) has been in research since at least 1996, when the first conference on the topic was held as part of SIGIR. It involves retrieving information from a user query which is in [...]
