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• Ian Barbers Blog: Alternative Term Weighting

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 460
  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
  1 day ago

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

  
  Social Media, Data Mining & Machine Learning — Authority: 103
  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 days ago

• Tell the FDA the whole story, please

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 518
  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 days ago

• Finding Phrases - Two Statistical Approaches

  
  Salmon Run — Authority: 103
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Alternative Term Weighting - Ian Barber

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 460
  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 ...
  4 days ago

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

  
  Thoughts of a [wannabe] librarian — Authority: 106
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Music Machinery — Authority: 429
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• DeepDyve’s iTunes Business Model

  
  Synthse — Authority: 98
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• ISMIR Oral Session 2 – Tempo and Rhythm

  
  Music Machinery — Authority: 429
  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: ...
  2 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tutorial Day at ISMIR

  
  Music Machinery — Authority: 429
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Phrase Likelihood with Binomial Distribution

  
  Salmon Run — Authority: 103
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Using Visualizations for Music Discovery

  
  Music Machinery — Authority: 429
  On Monday, Justin and I will present our magnum opus – a three-hour long tutorial entitled:  Using Visualizations for Music Discovery.  In this talk we look the various techniques that can be used for visualization of music.  We include a survey of the many existing visualizations of music, as well as talk ...
  2 weeks ago

• ISMIR Cloud browser

  
  Music Machinery — Authority: 429
  Maarten Grachten, Markus Schedl, Tim Pohle  and Gerhard Widmer have created an ISMIR Cloud browser that lets you browse the 10 years of music information research via a text cloud.   Check it out:   The ISMIR Cloud Browser
  3 weeks ago

• Binomial Probability Distribution with Commons-Math

  
  Salmon Run — Authority: 103
  Sometime back, I wrote about a Hadoop Phrase Extractor that went through a bunch of electronic books from the Gutenberg project and extracted possible phrases by parsing out 3-5 word grams. The extractor works fairly well for phrases of 3 words or more with a simple count threshold. However, for 2 word phrases, a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nothing is “Miscellaneous”

  
  Synthse — Authority: 98
  I think I now understand why David Weinberger’s book “ Everything is Miscellaneous ” is so provocative and sometimes enraging.  It often sounds like he’s claiming that there is no point at all in classifing / categorizing information.  No matter what you do, you’re going to get the category “wrong” ...
  3 weeks ago

• Link Building or Topical Content and Internal Links?

  
  SEO Design Solutions — Authority: 124
  Which is more important for SEO , building links from other sites or building relevant content and internal links within your own website to develop authoritative topicality and rankings? Content and Internal Links or Inbound Links? Which Matters More? Does building links for search engine optimization ...
  3 weeks ago

• Insights From 25 Years of Records Management

  
  Kusna's Blog — Authority: 446
  Since 1983, Crown Records Management has been serving the needs of Records Management professionals around the world. Over the years, the records management industry has experienced the effects of external influences. From new technologies, an abundance of regulations, the emergence of data privacy issues, a shrinking ...
  4 weeks ago

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