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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 …
From The Noisy Channel
Indexing by Intent
Search developers mostly focus on mapping queries to results. This perspective is natural, insofar as search starts with the user formulating a query and (hopefully)...
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Using Retrievability to Measure Recall
In court, witnesses swear to tell “the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” Search engines are not under oath, but they should be truthful.Two metrics for search...
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Search vs. Browse
One of the oldest distinctions in information access is between searching and browsing. Does a user initiate an information-seeking journey by typing keywords into...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Announces Call for Proposals for UA Day 2024
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is calling for event proposals for the second annual Universal Acceptance (UA) Day to be held on 28 March 2024. Organized...
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When Machine Learning Hits A Wall
Machine learning (or AI if you prefer) is amazing. I cannot think of another area of computer science — or of technology in general — that has been more influential...
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Critical Thinking and Generative AI
Critical Reasoning and Generative AIOne of the formative experiences in my mathematics education was a time I struggled to compute an integral in a calculus class...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
FY23 Report Captures Current State of UA-Readiness in Technology
This article was originally published on icann.org By Sarmad Hussain, Sr Director IDN & UA Programs and Seda Akbulut, Universal Acceptance (UA) Program ManagerFY23...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
New Testing Shows Progress and Opportunities for Improvement in Support of Chinese IDNs
By the China UA Local Initiative (CDNI) The number of Internet users in China recently surpassed 1 billion and China now accounts for about one-fifth of all Internet...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
FY24 Planning and More: Takeaways from the UASG Administrative Meeting in Istanbul
By Anil Kumar Jain, UASG Chair To kick off FY24, the UASG administrative team recently met in Istanbul for an in-person planning meeting. This valuable face-to-face...
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Semantic Equivalence of e-Commerce Queries
I am proud to share the slides for “Semantic Equivalence of e-Commerce Queries”, which my eBay colleague Aritra Mandal presented this morning at the KDD 2023 Workshop...
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Upcoming Search Classes this Fall
I hope that everyone has been enjoying the summer. I took a sabbatical from teaching, but I’m looking forward to new students this fall.Are you excited to learn...
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What is Searcher Happiness?
As a search specialist, my main goal is to improve searcher happiness. Sure, companies pay me to improve business metrics like conversion rate and revenue, butprobability...
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Surprise! Surprise?
We have reached the stage of generative AI where artists, authors, and performers are convinced that AI is stealing their lives — and, perhaps more importantly,...
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Search Result Snippets, Revisited
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...
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Implicit Query Reformulation
Let me start with the disclaimer that this post describes an embryonic idea, not an approach that I have validated through analysis or experimentation. With that...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
ICANN77 and UA Day: Insights from the Universal Acceptance Community
By Anil Kumar Jain, UASG Chair It has been an exciting year for the global Internet community, in particular those who are working toward the Universal Acceptance...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Thousands Rally Worldwide to Support a Multilingual Internet
Universal Acceptance events held in over 40 countries/territories, featuring 22 languages Los Angeles, CA – 3 July 2023 – The Internet Corporation for AssignedThousands...12