Information Retrieval

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• HAPPYneuron brain fitness iPhone Game

  
  Desinformado.com — Authority: 441
  HAPPYneuron’s most popular and addictive game, SplitWords, is now available on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Split Words is designed to help banish that ‘tip of the tongue’ syndrome forever. The SplitWords iPhone brain game challenges the brain by encouraging users to form complete words as quickly as possible ...
  2 days ago

• Extracting Useful Text from HTML

  
  Salmon Run — Authority: 104
  Some time back, a colleague pointed me to The Easy Way to Extract Useful Text from Arbitary HTML . If you havent read/know about this already, I suggest that you do, the simplicity of the approach will probably blow you away. The approach has two steps: For each line of input HTML, compute the text density and ...
  1 week ago

• Ian Barbers Blog: Alternative Term Weighting

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  In this new post from Ian Barber he takes a look at something that can come in very handy when you need something a bit more complex than the standard search results - term weighting. read more
  2 weeks ago

• 1st Spring School on Social Media Retrieval (S3MR)

  
  Social Media, Data Mining & Machine Learning — Authority: 100
  DEADLINE: November 17, 2009. Multimedia content has become ubiquitous on the web, creating new challenges for indexing, access, search and retrieval. At the same time, much of this content is made available on content sharing websites like YouTube or Flickr, or shared on social networks like Facebook. In such ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tell the FDA the whole story, please

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 522
  I scan menus for keywords (fig, parsnips, salmon…) and it turns out I scan Twitter the same way, looking for anyone who is talking about my favorite topics (data, consumers, information quality…) So when I saw Jonathan Richman ’s tweet the other night, I couldn’t resist it: Anyone ever seen data on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Finding Phrases - Two Statistical Approaches

  
  Salmon Run — Authority: 104
  In my previous post, I described how I used the Binomial Distribution to find the expected probability of a word n-gram, and compared the actual probability for a phrase to figure out if the n-gram is a phrase. I first learned about using a Binomial Distribution for Phrase Detection from Dr Konchadys Building Search ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alternative Term Weighting - Ian Barber

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  The term weighting and ranking function is at the core of any information retrieval system. The vector space model with the cosine similarity is maybe the best known and most widely used, but there are plenty of alternatives. Were looking at two here, the BM25 function based around a probabilistic model, and a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Plodding Along, Singing a Song, Walking in a Aber Wonderland

  
  Thoughts of a [wannabe] librarian — Authority: 100
  Well, as I have said before, studying has been a bit hard going since the birth of our daughter six months ago (the fastest six months of my life!).  I have found it particularly hard to strike the right balance between studying for my course, and fulfilling my responsibilities as a parent.  This has become ...
  3 weeks ago

• Poolcasting: an intelligent technique to customise music programmes for their audience

  
  Music Machinery — Authority: 430
  In preparation for his defense, Claudio Baccigalupo has placed online his thesis: Poolcasting: an intelligent technique to customise music programmes for their audience .  It looks to be an in depth look at playlisting. Here’s the abstract: Poolcasting is an intelligent technique to customise musical ...
  3 weeks ago

• DeepDyve’s iTunes Business Model

  
  Synthse — Authority: 92
  DeepDyve appears to have adopted an iTunes-like buisness model ….$0.99 rentals for scientific research articles! I like many things about the search engine – the way one can enter entire paragraphs of text as a query block, for instance.  You can use that feature in PLoSONE (Public Library of Science), though ...
  3 weeks ago

• ISMIR Oral Session 2 – Tempo and Rhythm

  
  Music Machinery — Authority: 430
  Session chair: Anssi Klapuri IMPROVING RHYTHMIC SIMILARITY COMPUTATION BY BEAT HISTOGRAM TRANSFORMATIONS By Marthias Gruhne , Christian Dittmar, and Daniel Gaertner Marthias described their approach to generating beat histogram techniques, similar to those used by Burred, Gouyun, Foote and Tzanetakis. Problem: ...
  4 weeks ago

• What Do Search Engines Know, That We Don’t?

  
  SEO Design Solutions — Authority: 124
  Search engines keep a running keyword tally of which pages you have, who links to them, what they are about and how popular they are . If somewhere on some page in your site any two keywords exist then the crawlers have mapped it. If a link can be crawled and the page is still active, then it can be optimized or ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tutorial Day at ISMIR

  
  Music Machinery — Authority: 430
  Monday was tutorial day. After months of preparation, Justin finally got to present our material. I was a bit worried that our timing on the talk would be way out of wack and we’d have to self edit on the fly – but all of our time estimates seemed to be right on the money. whew! The tutorial was well attended ...
  4 weeks ago

• Phrase Likelihood with Binomial Distribution

  
  Salmon Run — Authority: 104
  Last week, I wrote about the Binomial Distribution, and worked through the "New York" example from Dr Manu Konchadys " Building Search Applications " book. This week, I enhance my old Phrase Extractor code to filter the word grams generated using the ratio of actual probability to the estimated probability ...
  4 weeks ago

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