There is no point having a wonderful system if nobody else can use it (unless you’ve made it just for yourself). If you go to the theatre to see a fabulous play and that half the time you can’t see the actors because of bad lighting or because the props are in the way, then [...][...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nicholas Belkin;’
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[...]
January 10th, 2009 - 12:08 am § in Uncategorized
Affective Feedback
Nicholas Belkin when he gave the 2008 Grand Challenges lecture for Information Retrieval stated that there needs to be far more research into affective computing. This means taking into consideration user emotions. “This could help us understand what subsequent actions the user is likely[...]
November 3rd, 2008 - 3:42 am § in Uncategorized
IR people get a telling off – SEO’s take note
ECIR 2008 took place earlier this year and Nicholas Belkin did a keynote speech on the Grand Challenges in IR. This always feels to me a little bit like a telling off to the IR community on what we haven’t done properly or even considered as yet and where we’ve totally failed. ItR[...]
