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 su[...]
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May 25th, 2009 - 1:36 pm § in Tutorials
How does search engine personalisation work?
Search engines are personalising their results and not only in the SERPS but also in the paid ads arena and for things like Google alerts for example. It’s important to understand why personalisation is difficult, how it works and what future directions are. Without this information it’s[...]
May 18th, 2009 - 12:46 pm § in Tutorials
Make a web spider
I’m often asked how to make a spider to crawl the web, or a specific site, a directory, look for hubs, and so on. They’re not hard to make and there are a ton load of them out there. There is really no need to reinvent the wheel and write a load of other ones [...][...]
April 30th, 2009 - 6:38 pm § in Tutorials
Text Mining tutorial
This is a fantastic presentation which takes you through all sorts of commonly used algorithms in text mining and for processing web data. Concepts and methods from machine learning are presented and there’s even some little stick men, so it’s gotta be good. Who is this for? Those of you[...]
