Someone dropped me this patent and I instantly loved it because it describes a completely different solution to the problem of IR and does so in a very entertaining way…well obviously. The patent was filed in 2005 and published on the 13th of January 2009. The authors are all brilliant a[...]
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January 14th, 2009 - 4:23 pm § in Search engines, Uncategorized
Microsoft’s Game-Powered Search Engine
January 13th, 2009 - 8:12 pm § in Uncategorized
Clickstream spam detected
Clickstream analysis is a basic form of metric used to determine how much traffic comes to a site and some analysts also look at the quality of the traffic using this metric. There is more research being done into clickstream analysis because it is littered with noise, has a very high dimensionali[...]
January 10th, 2009 - 12:45 am § in TGIF
TGIF – 2009 starts
Welcome to the 1st TGIF of 2009. I’m glad many of you have enjoyed this series during 2008 and I hope that you enjoy the 2009 collection. Hopefully the festive season was enormous fun for everyone and you are not feeling the January Blues too much. If you are I hope that this installment[...]
January 7th, 2009 - 11:21 pm § in Adversarial IR, Information retrieval
SEO = Adversarial IR
SEO is more than often classified as an “Adversarial information retrieval” technique in the computing world. I say this because AIRWeb for example consider “malicious attempts to influence the outcome of ranking algorithms, aimed at getting an undeserved high ranking for some it[...]
December 9th, 2008 - 9:54 pm § in Uncategorized
LSI – No more!
With the help of some very cool Tweeters, I found some interesting facts about LSI and SEO. They are @dpn and @Mendicott. For a simple idea of what LSI/A is please read the wikipedia entry on it. The original paper is here. LSI was patented in 1988 by Scott Deerwester (doing humanitarian work n[...]
December 9th, 2008 - 9:04 pm § in Uncategorized
The importance of Datamining
Data mining is also called knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD). Data mining is the extraction of useful patterns and relationships from data sources, such as databases, texts, the web… It has nothing to do however with SQL, OLAP, data warehousing or any of that kind of thing. It uses [...]
December 4th, 2008 - 7:48 pm § in Uncategorized
Systers Microsoft meet
If you fancy popping along to the Microsoft professional developers conferences, they have added a women’s networking event called Woman’s Build. Hilary Pike will be hosting it. You can also go to the Lego SeriousPlay WomenBuild workshop at the MSDN Developer Conferences! It combine[...]
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[...]
October 27th, 2008 - 10:10 pm § in Uncategorized
Cleaning up misconceptions
I asked around for common myths and misconceptions about the web or the Internet that people found the most annoying and gave them the chance to put them right 1) The Internet is not the same as the world-wide-web: The Internet was invented by DARPA with ARPANET in 1969 (it is a global system of [[...]
