I came across this presentation by the National Library of Medicine and thought it was a great insight into working with Twitter data. They looked at tracking the H1N1 virus using the MEDLINE prototype. MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine’s online library that contains 11 million cita[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Technology_Internet’
August 10th, 2009 - 11:01 am § in Information retrieval
Processing Twitter data
Tags: Academic publishing, Bibliographic databases, bioinformatics, information services, Medical research, Medicine's online library, MEDLINE, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, natural language processing;, online library;, PubMed, Technology_Internet, twitter, Twitter Inc, U.s. national library, United States, United States National Library of Medicine 2 Comments
August 5th, 2009 - 5:28 pm § in Tools
15 conferences to watch
It’s important to stay in touch with what’s happening in your area of research and also those related to your area. If you have time it’s also nice to dip into the sort of thing you would normally have nothing to do with like graphics in my case for example. It’s good because[...]
Tags: artificial intelligence, Association for Computing Machinery, CHI, Daniel Tunkelang, data mining;, Document Analysis Systems, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Human-computer interaction, Information retrieval, Intelligent Agent Technology, interest group;, knowledge management;, machine translation;, Matt Cutts, natural language processing;, Noisy Channel, Semantic web, SIGMOD, Special Interest Group, Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, Technology_Internet, Web Conference, Web Services IJCAI 1 Comment
August 3rd, 2009 - 10:53 pm § in Semantic web
Is it really a URL?
I thought it might be a nice idea to go over what the different identifiers on the web were. Tim Berners-Lee recently showed some exasperation at us all calling everything “URL”. With the the Semantic Web gaining momentum, it’s even more important to start calling things by their c[...]
Tags: ASCII;, Author, http, IBM;, International Business Machines Corporation, Internationalized Resource Identifier, Naming scheme, Resource, Semantic web, Technology_Internet, Tim Berners-Lee;, Uniform Resource Identifier, Uniform Resource Locator, Uniform Resource Name, URI scheme, web addresses No Comments
July 31st, 2009 - 6:41 pm § in TWIG
This week in geekdom – thEsi§
Greetings, I hope that the week has treated you well and that you have achieved all manner of wonderful things. There has been a lot going on with the SIGIR conference low-down, the Google-Yahoo deal (it would be funny, no?), and all of the craziness surrounding cognition, nanotechnology and robotic[...]
Tags: ado;, America;, bathtub/shower Aerogrow garden, DoS, Google, Google Inc., Helen Keller, high tech, IBM;, International Business Machines Corporation, Interrupt, Mercedes 300SL, Ron Arad, screen saver, software system, Technology_Internet, Teuco bathroom installation, Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc. No Comments
July 24th, 2009 - 1:18 am § in Inspirations
Dumais, Salton & Magic
Susan Dumais was awarded the Salton award at SIGIR this week. I am not exactly breaking news here, but rather I wanted to write a post to honour this wonderful lady, especially since she helped me early on in my PhD research. I have followed her work for years now and I have a lot of [...][...]
Tags: Collaborative filtering, Cornell;, Cyril Cleverdon, Gerard Salton, Human Interest, improved search, Index, Information retrieval, Karen Sparck-Jones, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft;, personal information management, Question answering, rather good Violinist, Stephen Robertson, Susan Dumais;, Technology_Internet, W. Bruce Croft, web search;, William Cooper No Comments
July 18th, 2009 - 5:44 pm § in Information retrieval
Assisted search
There’s a post over at Search Engine Land by Kim Krause Berg which highlights recent research being done in search and use behaviour. It’s a nice short summary, very accessible and quotes some pretty authoritative sources such as Jim Jansen for example. I wanted to post about this becaus[...]
Tags: advanced surfer, Amanda Spink, assisted search, conversational systems;, David Robins, easy search, gigantic web site, http://xyz.com, Jim Jansen, Kim Krause Berg, large commercial site, linguist, machine learning;, Natural language search, online marketing, Professor of information science, search engine, search engine results;, search es, search focus, search marketing, Semantic web, site owner, Technology_Internet 4 Comments
July 15th, 2009 - 1:44 am § in Semantic web
OWL – w00t
If you’re talking about RDF, then you should know about OWL. Web Ontology Language (OWL) is also a knowledge representation language and is also part of the semantic web (“OWL” just sounded better than “WOL”). It is built on top of RDF and written in XML. We don’t[...]
Tags: Asia, computing, Description logic, great surfer, Health_Medical_Pharma, Human Interest, Knowledge representation, Ontology, Owl, OWL DL, Pre-semantic web, Rachel Lovinger, RDF;, Resource Description Framework, Robert Ruffin, Semantic web, Semantic Web Stack, SEO arena, SEOs, SQL;, Technology_Internet, web documents;, Web Ontology Language, Web Ontology Language Guide, XML; No Comments
