This is a list of my top 10 freely available papers on the topic of information retrieval. Â You will notice that they are rather old, but the techniques used described and the findings are not always dated. Â Those that dated are important nonetheless because they provide a good foundation to under[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Reading’
April 8th, 2009 - 11:31 am § in Information retrieval, Tutorials
10 papers you need to read
Tags: Andrei
Broder, Bruce Croft;, Christopher Manning, Gavin O'Brien, Gerard Salton, Heinrich
Schuetze, Information retrieval, information retrieval systems;, James
Callan, Michael
Lesk, Michael Berry, Nicholas Belkin;, Prabhakar Raghavan, Raghavan Grosky, Raghavan Schuetze, Reading, research papers, Ricardo
Baeza, Ricardo Baeza-Yates;, Robert
Krovetz, Search engines, Stephen Harding, Susan Dumais;, Tutorials, Venkat Gudivada, Vijay Raghavan, web search;, William
Frakes, William
Grosky Comments Off
March 31st, 2009 - 2:00 pm § in Social networks
Masters Degree in Social Media
The Birmingham City University has announced that it is offering a masters in Social Media. Â You can read more about it on Mashable and also in the Telegraph for example. Â Mashable have a conversation going on with a number of different opinions. There are a fair few people who read this blog who [...]
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March 26th, 2009 - 2:20 pm § in Information retrieval, Search engines
8 tools to find semantic similarity between words
The big news this week has been Google announcing their use of semantics to enhance the performance of the search engine. Â This will not come as a surprise to computer scientists working in the language field (IR, NLP etc…). Â There are also already quite a few semantic search engines around[...]
How to get through the papers
 I hear a lot of people (not particularly in research but in other less academic areas) saying that they don’t consider reading papers past 2008 important or useful because they’re are too dated.  I can understand why this perception is knocking around, but I think that ignoring older[...]
March 6th, 2009 - 11:53 am § in TGIF
TGIF – :8)
Welcome to another edition of TGIF. Â I hope that you have all enjoyed the week and that you have a cool weekend lined up. Â We’re into March now so the seasons are changing around, it’s autumn here and many of you are looking forward to spring. Â Book some holiday and give yourself some[...]
Tags: ado;, Bob Kahn, Bob Metcalfe, Brian Morel, Brighton, Ethernet, France;, Gerard Salton, Google, Harvard;, ice cream machine server, Internet problem, present basic Internet ideas, Reading, San Francisco hotel lobby, search engine, Sussex, Ted Nelson, TGIF, Tim Berners-Lee;, twitter, United Kingdom;, Univ of Sussex, Vinton Cerf, Virtual Library, Xerox; 2 Comments
February 18th, 2009 - 12:50 pm § in Inspirations, SEO & marketing
SEO & Gardening
 Back in the days of web 1.0, the role of the SEO was to get the site as high up as possible on the search engines.  During the days of web 2.0, the role of the SEO has changed to include social media marketing also.  As the SEO professional walks towards the future, his/her role [...][...]
Tags: a computer scientist, Bill Slawski;, computer programmer, computer scientist, computing, David Harry;, gardener, how ranking algorithms;, James Morris;, mathematician, professional gardener, Reading, search engine, search engine patents;, Search engines, search engines vs;, Semantic web, social media;, text processing;, weekend gardener, www.toothpastefordinner.com, www.toothpastefordinner.com; 14 Comments
February 16th, 2009 - 5:33 pm § in Blog research
How you affect your blog reader
We’re long due another paper review so we’ll start the week with “Exploring the Role of the Reader in the Activity of Blogging” by Baumer, Sueyoshi, Tomlinson (University of California, Irvine). The authors looked at blog reader practices and how these were affected by identi[...]
January 28th, 2009 - 3:28 pm § in Information/text analysis, Uncategorized
Information credibility analysis
I wanted to draw a little attention to a Japanese project called the “Information Credibility Criteria Project“.  The NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) started it in 2006. This project is all about looking at how information sources are not all eq[...]
January 16th, 2009 - 2:44 pm § in Uncategorized
Off topic: Heads-up
Hey all, I am taking a few days off from the webnet and going to some lovely tropical islands off the coast of Southern Thailand. Â I will mostly be snorkling, reading my book by the pool and in the hammock, and sampling delicious food. If you don’t see a blog post from me on Thursday I̵[...]
Tags: delicious food;, Reading, Thailand; No Comments
December 19th, 2008 - 9:24 pm § in Uncategorized
Off on holiday!
It has been a very cool year hasn’t it? I am setting off for France now, and will be offline (gasp!) for the first time in 3 years for the entire duration of my 10 day holiday. Â That’s right, no email, blogging, reading news, Twitter, FaceBook, Linkedin, Twine, Last.fm…oh dear. Â[...]
