Over the next few weeks I would like to begin laying out the theme of this blog. I’ve been thinking about exactly what it is I would like to say, and what would be of value to discuss with the online community. At its core, this blog is about information retrieval in its myriad forms and applications: Text, Music, Images, Web, Video, and so forth. But the way in which these systems are designed, whose information needs they are trying to meet, and by what metrics they are evaluated, are extremely important considerations. One thing that I would like to do is investigate the assumptions underlying the retrieval systems that we are all creating and using.
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