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On hiQ v. LinkedIn

On August 14th, US District Judge Edward M. Chen granted a preliminary injunction to hiQ Labs in its case against LinkedIn. While I agree with part of the judge... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | August 16, 2017 at 01:08 AM

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Here are a couple of relevant papers:

Here are a couple of relevant papers: Scaling Semantic Parsers with On-the-Fly Ontology Matching Ontology-Based Translation of Natural Language Queries to SPARQL... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | July 27, 2017 at 04:36 PM

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Taxonomies and Ontologies

In order to understand queries, it’s important to ground that understanding in a knowledge base. Two common ways to represent a knowledge base are taxonomies and... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | July 27, 2017 at 03:51 PM

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Prithiviraj, thanks for the kind words.

Prithiviraj, thanks for the kind words. As for NER systems for English text only recognizing named entities in title case, that’s usually a function of how they... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 2017 at 11:15 AM

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Entity Recognition

In the previous post on query scoping, we discussed query tagging as a special case of named-entity recognition (NER). In this post, we’ll dive a little bit deeper... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 30, 2017 at 09:31 AM

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Query Scoping

In the previous post, we discussed how query segmentation improves precision by grouping query words into semantic units. In this post, we’ll discuss query scoping... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 16, 2017 at 11:46 AM

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Thanks Bart. I haven’t read it, but I’ll take a look. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Bart. I haven’t read it, but I’ll take a look. Thanks for sharing. Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 29, 2017 at 04:27 PM

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Query Segmentation

The previous two posts focused on using query rewriting to increase recall. We can also use query rewriting to increase precision — that is, to reduce the number... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 28, 2017 at 02:51 PM

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A Non-Adversarial Ad-Supported Model

If you’ve followed me for a while, you know that I’m not a big fan of ad-supported business models. It’s not just that I find ads annoying; I also see them as economically... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 15, 2017 at 07:23 PM

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Thanks for the kind words!

Thanks for the kind words!Stack Overflow and Quora certainly have reputation systems, and I love both sites. But I don’t feel either of them is focusing on being... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 6, 2017 at 02:32 PM

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How could LinkedIn be disrupted?

When I worked at LinkedIn, I focused on its mission of “connecting talent to opportunity at a massive scale”. Or, as I preferred to describe it, helping people... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 5, 2017 at 06:59 PM

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Thanks for the kind words and for the heads up on the broken link, which I’ve now fixed.

Thanks for the kind words and for the heads up on the broken link, which I’ve now fixed. And good point about polo — a good reminder generally that all language... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | March 31, 2017 at 12:15 PM

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Query Relaxation

In the previous post, we discussed query expansion as a way to increase recall. In this post we’ll discuss the other major technique for increasing recall: query... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | March 28, 2017 at 03:31 PM

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I recognize that my participation in the gig economy is hardly representative of most people’s…

I recognize that my participation in the gig economy is hardly representative of most people’s experience. Indeed, I wrote a post about “The Hook-Up Economy” (https... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | March 19, 2017 at 02:45 PM

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Query Expansion

A key application of query rewriting is increasing recall — that is, matching a larger set of relevant results. In extreme cases… Continue reading on Query Understanding... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | March 13, 2017 at 09:38 AM

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Martin, I don’t envy you the challenge of trying to improve search for clients who value search…

Continue reading on Medium » Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | February 21, 2017 at 04:40 PM

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How To Improve Your Search Experience

As a high-class consultant, I spend a lot of time helping companies improve their search experiences. Every company has a unique set of… Continue reading on Medium... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | February 21, 2017 at 08:32 AM

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Query Rewriting: An Overview

Thus far, we’ve focused on query understanding at the character and token level. It’s time move up the stack, on to entities and the query… Continue reading on... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | February 16, 2017 at 10:25 AM

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Lots of good stuff in there.

Of course, the most annoying thing is an unexpected, unsolicited phone call. Once I’ve determined that it’s a legitimate aggressive sales… Continue reading on ... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | February 10, 2017 at 02:32 PM

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Stemming and Lemmatization

Different forms of a word often communicate essentially the same meaning. For example, there’s probably no difference in intent between a… Continue reading on ... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | February 6, 2017 at 09:02 AM