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Straight away one cannot narrow results by NOTting out bed bugs. It is nice to see vertical search engines get some press. MakeUseOf presents a roundup of the “10 Best Hotel Search Engines to Get the Best Deals When You Travel.” The article makes its case for each choice, complete with screenshots. See the write [...]
Updated: 2012-02-12 13:39:49
The key to any search site is being able to provide users with relevant and accurate search results. Funnelback Website and Enterprise Search allows business to setup a search system that meets their specific needs or objectives. Funnelback asserts that it can take information from several different locations, compile it and deliver relevant results. Users [...]
Updated: 2012-02-12 05:07:41
Is this a new type of polling or is it social trolling? Attensity’s blog reports, “Politico Uses Attensity to Analyze SOPA Sentiment.” Attensity took on Politico’s challenge to mine social media for attitudes on the Stop Online Piracy Act. It turns out that people who spend a lot of time online skew heavily against the [...]
Updated: 2012-02-12 05:02:26
We’ve found a couple of useful tips for Google users. The first one I used immediately: MakeUseOf reveals “How to Turn Off Google’s Personal Search Results & Get Back to Enjoying Life.” Like writer Justin Pot and me, you may find Google’s new Personal Search to be more hindrance than help. The write up asks: [...]
Updated: 2012-02-11 14:23:27
From the “we don’t know if this is accurate” department: If you’re a government and need a reason for censorship, look no further than RT’s “People Let Down by Government Turning to Social Networks.” The write up reveals: The Edelman Trust Barometer has found that people around the world have lost trust in their governments [...]
Updated: 2012-02-11 05:54:34
Let’s say you’re an IT professional, but you were just given your first SharePoint project. You have a general knowledge of the collaborative content platform, but not enough to tackle a project blindly. The most important thing is to not panic, take a deep breath, and check out CMSWire’s article, “Wrapping Your Head Around the [...]
Updated: 2012-02-11 05:14:10
BAM! POW! BOOM! The most famous superhero with a sidekick certainly is Batman and Robin. Stephen Porter of Zero Wait State thinks there is a sidekick to the PLM superhero who is often forgotten. His blog post The PLM State: Don’t Sleep on Robin – the Hidden Value of Project Management focuses on the importance [...]
Updated: 2012-02-11 05:04:36
Thetus endorses Flex and Flash in “The Adobe Flex Open Source Hubbub.” Adobe Flex, long used to develop applications for the Adobe Flash Player, is now being unleashed on the open source community. The write up states: The Flex SDK is already available to the open source community, but under the control of Adobe, meaning [...]
Updated: 2012-02-11 05:02:19
Android is a big winner or a potential headache. Here in Harrod’s Creek we just don’t know. The dramatic increase of smartphone and other tablet users over the past couple of years has resulted in the creation of thousands of apps. Read Write Web recently reported on the international smartphone market in the article “There [...]
Updated: 2012-02-10 05:54:45
It has been a while since I have written about a top ten list, ladies and gentlemen, but I am so glad that I found another SharePoint top ten list to share with you. The list comes from SharePointProMag.com, it is by Todd O. Klindt, and the title is, “Top 10 SharePoint 2010 Configuration Mistakes—And [...]
Updated: 2012-01-16 00:28:02
SIGN IN SIGN UP Discovering URLs through user feedback Full : Text PDF Buy this Article Authors : Xiao Bai Yahoo Research , Barcelona , Spain B . Barla Cambazoglu Yahoo Research , Barcelona , Spain Flavio P . Junqueira Yahoo Research , Barcelona , Spain Published : in Proceeding CIKM 11 Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management ACM New York , NY USA 2011 table of contents ISBN : 978-1-4503-0717-8 doi 10.1145 2063576.2063592 2011 Article Bibliometrics Downloads 6 Weeks 65 Downloads 12 Months 65 Citation Count : 0 Tools and Resources Buy this Article Request Permissions TOC : Service Email RSS Save to Binder Export : Formats BibTeX EndNote ACM Ref Upcoming : Conference CIKM'12 : Share : Tags experimentation performance relevance feedback
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: The Noisy Channel ABOUT DISCLOSURE Follow dtunkelang HCIR 2011 : We Have Arrived Interview in Forbes : What is a Data Scientist RecSys 2011 Tutorial : Recommendations as a Conversation with the User October 31st , 2011 2 Comments General Last week , I had the privilege to present a tutorial at the 5th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems RecSys 2011 Given my passion for HCIR and my advocacy for transparency in recommender systems it shouldn’t surprise regular readers that I focused on both . Unfortunately the tutorial was not recorded , but I hope the slides above prove useful . I also encourage you to take a look at the other tutorials whose slides are posted on the conference . site If you enjoyed this post , make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed 2 responses so far 1
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SIGN IN SIGN UP Improving quality of training data for learning to rank using click-through data Full : Text PDF Buy this Article Authors : Jingfang Xu Microsoft Research Asia , Beijing , China Chuanliang Chen Beijing Normal University , Beijing , China Gu Xu Microsoft Research Asia , Beijing , China Hang Li Microsoft Research Asia , Beijing , China Elbio Renato Torres Abib Microsoft , Redmond , WA , USA 2010 Article Bibliometrics Downloads 6 Weeks 15 Downloads 12 Months 82 Citation Count : 1 Published : in Proceeding WSDM 10 Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining ACM New York , NY USA 2010 table of contents ISBN : 978-1-60558-889-6 doi 10.1145 1718487.1718509 Tools and Resources Buy this Article Request Permissions TOC : Service Email RSS Save
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Justin Zobel Professor and Head , Department of Computing and Information Systems the University of Melbourne Mail : Department of Computer Science Software Engineering , University of Melbourne , Parkville 3010, Australia . Office : Computing Information Systems , Level 4, ICT Building Phone : 61 3 8344 1505, email : jzobel at . unimelb.edu.au Some current activities Editor-in-Chief Asia Australasia International Journal of Information Retrieval Associate editor , ACM Transactions on Information Systems Associate editor , Information Processing Retrieval Associate editor , IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Theme leader , bioinformatics , VLSCI Lecturer , Research Methods semester 2 2011. A recent keynote at CIKM 2011 ACM Conference on Information Knowledge Management
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: Haystack Blog MIT CSAIL Research Group Website CIKM 2011 Keynote : User Interfaces that Entice People to Manage Better Information Filed under : News PIM Search Social Computing User Interfaces Visualization by David Karger on Tuesday , 25 October 2011 1 Comment Tags : CSAIL Today I gave a keynote at CIKM 2011 I argued that in addition to all our work on tools the process information for users , we should also be looking at tools that make people better able to apply their innate information processing talents for themselves . I talked about the following tools that reflext that idea , all of which are available for you to try out on the : web List.it a note-taking tool for information scraps capture Nb for social annotation discussion of class lecture notes Feedme for social content
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