information_retrieval

Marti Hearst - pre-eminant in the fields of text mining and user interfaces - yesterday published her book on Search User Interfaces. I intend to write up a review of the content later, but for now heres a summary.

The book, which is available ... [-->]

An der Keyworddichte als Rankingfaktor scheiden sich die Geister: für die einen ist sie ein Blick zurück auf den Anfang dieses Jahrtausends als häufiges Wiederholen des Keywords im Text und Dateinamen einen bei Fireball wirklich weit nach vorne brachte, für die anderen ist der prozentuale Anteil, de ... [-->]

Posted by Jake Brutlag, Web Search Infrastructure

At Google, we've gathered hard data to reinforce our intuition that "speed matters" on the Internet. Google runs experiments on the s ... [-->]

[ Editor's Note: This is a guest article by Daniel Tunkelang. (See his bio below.) Daniel is passionate about designing search systems that improve users' experience with information retrieval. This passion comes across very strongly in his book about faceted search, which I recently ... [-->]

I’m a huge fan of Daniel Tunkelang and his blog “The noisy channel“. Recently he spoke at the Text Analytics Summit and was kind enough to share his slides with us all. Check out the other available prese ... [-->]