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Question Answering

When we talk about search, we have traditionally thought in terms of search results being documents or products. Searchers, however, increasingly think of search... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 1, 2018 at 10:01 AM

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Search Results Clustering

Search queries that express broad intent often return intractably large result sets. We’ve already discussed faceted search as a way to help users narrow theirScatter... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 16, 2018 at 09:01 AM

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Search Result Snippets

Search result snippets, also known as query-biased summaries, are the additional context included with each result on the search results page. They are an essential... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | March 12, 2018 at 11:24 AM

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Search Results Presentation

Until now, we’ve mostly focused on query processing — which is to be expected, given that this series is about query understanding. But given that searchers are... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | February 20, 2018 at 11:57 PM

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Great post, and thanks for the shout-out! Excited to read the rest of the series.

Great post, and thanks for the shout-out! Excited to read the rest of the series. Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | January 24, 2018 at 05:23 PM

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Faceted Search

Faceted search is a topic broad enough to deserve its own book. It has become a standard feature of all modern search engines, including open-source platforms like... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | January 24, 2018 at 03:12 PM

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I didn’t say it’s illegal for search engines, hiQ, or anyone else to attempt to attempt to index…

I didn’t say it’s illegal for search engines, hiQ, or anyone else to attempt to attempt to index the LinkedIn public profiles. Quite the opposite.Here’s what I said... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | January 18, 2018 at 05:41 PM

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Thanks Randy!

Thanks Randy! And I promise I’ll discuss some of the issues of mobile and voice interfaces in future posts. Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | January 8, 2018 at 02:07 PM

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Relevance Feedback

The idea of modeling search as a conversation has been around for decades. One of the oldest ideas in information retrieval is relevance feedback, which dates back... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | January 3, 2018 at 12:51 PM

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I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do…

I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do so with the expectation that their public profile will appear... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | December 22, 2017 at 01:13 AM

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Thank you for the kind words.

Thank you for the kind words. As for your second point, Nick Bostrom defines “superintelligence” as “an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | December 21, 2017 at 04:42 PM

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An interesting topic! I have seen sites with functionality along these lines:

An interesting topic! I have seen sites with functionality along these lines: Travel sites that inform you whether you can get better prices if your dates are flexible... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | December 21, 2017 at 10:49 AM

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Clarification Dialogues

As we saw in the previous post, modeling search as a conversation makes it possible to overcome breakdowns in communication between the searcher and the searchspelling... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | December 13, 2017 at 11:49 AM

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Search as a Conversation

Most search applications assume a query-response paradigm: the searcher submits a search query, and the search engine responds with results. The query-responseprecision... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | November 27, 2017 at 09:01 AM

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Thanks. If you’re interested in this area, I suggest you read the series of posts I’ve been writing…

Thanks. If you’re interested in this area, I suggest you read the series of posts I’ve been writing at queryunderstanding.com. Those do include more references,... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | November 22, 2017 at 12:24 PM

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Better Search through Better Queries

I spend a lot of time helping companies improve their search engines. Much of my work involves returning better results for their users’ search queries. But there... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | November 10, 2017 at 01:07 PM

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Personalization

In 1964, information science pioneer William Goffman said:Relevance is defined as a measure of information conveyed by a document relative to a query…[but] thecontext... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | November 6, 2017 at 08:01 AM

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Thanks Andrei. Indeed, there’s a lot more to seasonality than I covered in this post.

Thanks Andrei. Indeed, there’s a lot more to seasonality than I covered in this post. Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | October 30, 2017 at 11:09 PM

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Seasonality

Whether it’s the time of year or the time of day, the time when someone performs a search sometimes help us determine the searcher’s intent. As with location, it... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | October 30, 2017 at 05:45 PM

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Geographical Context

Location often provides a strong signal of searcher intent. Sometimes location acts as an implicit part of the search query, such as when people are searching for... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | October 23, 2017 at 04:54 PM