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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
Information Extraction
When we index content for search, it’s natural to think in terms of documents. But searchers aren’t necessarily looking for documents. They’re looking for information...
From The Noisy Channel
Content Understanding
This publication is a series of posts devoted to content understanding. Each post is self-contained, but there is a natural progression. If you’d like to read them...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
ICANN75 Recap: Challenges, Successes, and Looking Ahead to 2023
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) As the ICANN community came together for the last Public Meeting of 2022, the Universal Acceptance SteeringICANN75...
From The Noisy Channel
Content Moderation
Many platforms, particularly social media sites and ecommerce marketplaces, establish policies to determine what they consider acceptable content. These platforms...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Make Your Systems UA-Ready with the New UA-Readiness Report for FY22
By Ajay Data, UASG Chair “What gets measured gets managed.” This quote is popular in business settings because it speaks to a widely accepted truth: if you can...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Publishes FY23 Action Plan; Increases Focus on Technical Communities
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has published its annual operating plan for FY23 (July 2022 – June 2023). The FY23 Action Plan provides an overview...
From The Noisy Channel
Similarity-Sensitive Diversity
In my work on search engines and recommender systems, I’ve thought a lot about entropy and diversity. I named my first blog, The Noisy Channel, after a seminalClaude...
From The Noisy Channel
Content Quality
Despite its importance, content quality is hard to define without devolving into circularity. What we mean by content quality is a measure or collection of measures...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Göran Marby Named Honorary UASG Ambassador
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is pleased to announce that it has named Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) President and...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Building a More Inclusive Internet for All: A Radix Initiative
By Aman Masjide, UA Ambassador; Consulting Advisor, Trust and Safety, Radix The ironic fact of the matter remains that there’s rigidity hardcoded into the ever-evolving...
From The Noisy Channel
Content Structure
One of the challenges facing search applications is that users aren’t necessarily searching for documents. To put it another way, the unit of content that a user...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Why UA? Understanding the Social and Economic Benefits of Universal Acceptance
By the UASG Communications Working Group Imagine trying to complete a transaction online — signing up for a class, ordering food delivery or subscribing to your...
From The Noisy Channel
Search is Fundamental
Search engines are at the heart of the digital world. We interact with them on the outside, using search engines to find information, products, and more. But they...
From The Noisy Channel
Search: Teaching the Fundamentals
Earlier this year, Grant Ingersoll and I kicked off a 4-week co:rise course on Search with Machine Learning. We covered search fundamentals, and then went on to...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UA Insights from ICANN73: Measuring UA Progress and Celebrating New Collaborations
By Dr. Ajay Data, UASG Chair During the ICANN73 Virtual Community Forum (7-10 March) and Prep Week (22–24 February), the global Internet community came together...
From The Noisy Channel
Content Similarity
Content classification and annotation offer useful approaches for content understanding, recognizing whether a piece of content is about a particular topic or mentions...
From The Noisy Channel
Content Annotation
Content understanding requires both holistic and reductionist approaches, just like query understanding. The previous post focused on content classification asentity...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
New Tests on Universal Acceptance (UA) Conformance of Programming Languages and Libraries Published
By the UASG Technology Working Group Since the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) was formed in 2015, it has focused on raising awareness of Universal Acceptance...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
New UA Testing of Social Media Platforms and Browsers Published
By the UASG Measurement Working Group Social Media Testing Highlights UA Gaps Social media has become a ubiquitous part of life for people around the globe with...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group