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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Martin, I don’t envy you the challenge of trying to improve search for clients who value search…
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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I’ve done both.
I’ve done both. Much of the work I do involves helping teams with prioritization, evaluation, choosing among architectural or algorithmic options, hiring, etc....
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Living The Dream
A year ago, I decided to take a break from full-time employment and explore a mix of consulting, advising, writing, and speaking. Continue reading on Medium »
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Spelling Correction
Spelling correction is a must-have for any modern search engine. Continue reading on Query Understanding »
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Tokenization
Now that we can handle characters, let’s move on to words. Continue reading on Query Understanding »
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I feel strongly that we should have non-exclusive ownership of our raw behavioral data — that’s…
But I’m not convinced that we should have any inherent rights to inferences that companies make from observing our behavior. Especially if… Continue reading on...
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Privatizing Our Past
The essence of machine learning is learning from data. Since we can only learn from past data, machine learning uses our knowledge of the… Continue reading on ...
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Democratizing Reputation
I was an early adopter of LinkedIn. As one of the first 50K people to join the platform in 2003, I started blogging about it in 2008 and… Continue reading on ...
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Character Filtering
Search queries are made up of characters. It’s easy to take characters for granted; indeed, people who have never implemented a search… Continue reading on Query...
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