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 ‘natural language processing;’
August 26th, 2009 - 1:26 pm § in Opinion mining
How sentiment analsysis works
There is a lot of interest about Sentiment Analysis (SA) (also called Opinion Mining) in the press at the moment. Since the last decade or so there has been research in this area because we have made enough advances in natural language processing and AI to allow us to contemplate implementing s[...]
June 5th, 2009 - 4:37 pm § in Search engines
Inbenta announces New “Semantic Site Search” engine
Just a heads-up: “Inbenta announces the launch of “Semantic Site Search”, a new service (SaaS-based) that provides search to any website within the cloud computing. After four years of development (project codename: voldemort), this search service includes Semantic Search capabilit[...]
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 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 [...]
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[...]
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 [...]
