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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Dances with HiPPOs
Decision making, especially at technology companies, is supposed to be data-driven. Unfortunately, even in this wondrous age of science, decisions often depends...
From My Biased Coin
Happy New Academic Year: Teaching Randomized Algorithms
It seems I haven't written on this blog for a while.Today was the start of a new semester. I'll be teaching Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis, using...
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Martin, thanks for the kind words.
Martin, thanks for the kind words. The TunkRank that Jason Adams implemented has been down for a while. I’m not aware of any other implementation that is available...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
The Next Generation of Developers Set Their Sights on a Multilingual Internet
By Harish Chowdhary, UA Ambassador and Technology Analyst for the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) Twenty-four developers, a group with a unique role...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Breaking the Linguistic Barriers to Access the Internet
The 9th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2019) published a paper from members of the UASG. The paper explains IDNs, which are domain names in local languages...
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I’m hardly an expert on legal IR. But here are a few pointers:
I’m hardly an expert on legal IR. But here are a few pointers: Passage retrieval in legal texts [PDF] Passage Retrieval Starting from Patent Claims A Clef-Ip 2013...
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I can only offer high-level guidance in a comment thread.
I can only offer high-level guidance in a comment thread. But it sounds like you might benefit from collecting trigrams as well as bigrams. If mug tree stands are...
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I discuss it a bit in this post: https://queryunderstanding.com/query-expansion-2d68d47cf9c8
I discuss it a bit in this post: https://queryunderstanding.com/query-expansion-2d68d47cf9c8
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Broad and Ambiguous Search Queries
A typical approach for processing search queries is to retrieve a set of matching documents and then rank them with a relevance scoring function. This simple approach...
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Premature Optimization is (Still) the Root of All Evil
A lesson that we software engineers learn early in our careers is that “premature optimization is the root of all evil.” This gem of advice from the inimitableDonald...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Salutes Don Hollander for His Contributions
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced today that Don Hollander is retiring from his position as Secretary General at the end of May. Don is a...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Looking Ahead to a Bright Future for the Universal Acceptance of All Domain Names
By Dr. Ajay Data, chair of the UASG; founder and CEO of XgenPlus A month into my new role as Chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), I am more...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Looking Ahead to a Bright Future for the Universal Acceptance of All Domain Names
By Dr. Ajay Data, chair of the UASG; founder and CEO of XgenPlus A month into my new role as Chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), I am moreLooking...
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Is Relevance Part of the Problem?
Much of the innovation in information retrieval and recommender systems focuses on better targeting in order to improve relevance. Those of us who develop suchin...
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Thanks Tony!
Thanks Tony! And you’re right thatI’m oversimplifying. My excuse is that it was already a 2,000-word post. :-)
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Search: The Whole Story
Query understanding and relevance are key aspects of search, but they don’t tell the whole story. A holistic framework for search calls for a broader perspective...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Elects New Chair and Vice Chairs
Leadership to Continue the Group’s Work in Ensuring the Universal Acceptance of All Domain Names 15 MARCH 2019 – The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG)UASG...
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Search Engines: A Human Perspective
At first glance, the design and development of search engines appear to be concerned mainly with computer science — particularly information retrieval, machine,...
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Reflecting on TunkRank
One of my earliest blog posts was “A Twitter Analog to PageRank”, in which I proposed a simple measure for Twitter influence.As the title indicates, the measure...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group