There’s an awful lot of attention is being given to users and click data at the moment (despite the fact that analysing query logs dates back to 10 years ago). “Tailoring Click Models to User Goals” by Guo, Li, Faloutsos (Carnegie University) is from the 2009 workshop on Web Search[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Search engines’
March 23rd, 2009 - 3:14 pm § in Information retrieval, Personalised search, Query and Cluster analysis
User goals and tailoring click models
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 [...]
User intent in real time
“Determining User’s Interest in Real Time” by Singh, Murthy and Gonsalves is a pretty interesting paper. It was presented at www 08. This is an interesting one for the SEO’s out there in particular. There are a lot of techniques that they use to determine how popular a term o[...]
March 11th, 2009 - 3:29 pm § in Query and Cluster analysis, Search engines
Search engines to calculate implicit semantic relations
I came across a cool paper called ”Measuring the Similarity between Implicit Semantic Relations using Web Search Engines” by Bollegala, Matsuo and Ishizuka from the University of Tokyo (WSDM 09). It’s all about calculating the implicit semantic relatedness between word pairs us[...]
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 [...]
February 26th, 2009 - 10:59 pm § in Information retrieval, SEO & marketing
Long-tail is rubbish!
I got to the Hitwise report through a link from Dave to a post on Search Engine Land written by Matt McGee (convoluted journey I know). I liked the post because I have tons of papers and things to read each day and the concise writeup pleased me greatly. The report (isn’t that long [...]
February 23rd, 2009 - 10:07 am § in Inspirations, Search engines
Frowning at Google
I am as many of you will know a Google supporter because I think that they’re always developing new and interesting things, and that they write good papers too. I like their search engine, and I’ve followed them since the beginning. I use other search engines too like Yahoo for example[...]
