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Author Archives: jeremy
Dagstuhl Seminar on Content-Based Retrieval
As a researcher, it is occasionally quite interesting to reread thoughts and positions that I’ve taken in years and works past. Sometimes I can observe a marked shift from my previous thinking; avenues or approaches that I once considered fruitful … Continue reading
“Improving Findability” Falls Short of the Mark
Via Tim O’Reilly on Twitter, I came across this article by Vanessa Fox on how government can improve the findability of their web pages, and thereby allow citizens to become better informed and government to be more transparent. Fox writes:
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Universal, Google launch ‘Vevo’ Music Service
From Wired: Vevo will launch later this year, a collaboration between Universal Music Group and Google the partners expect to be the leading music video service in the world from day one. Google confirmed to Wired.com Thursday that all of … Continue reading
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Retrievability
In my previous post I talked a little about the notion that big data alone cannot solve many of our problems. I would like to give a more concrete example of this by discussing a paper published at CIKM 2008: … Continue reading
Posted in Information Retrieval Foundations
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Large Data versus Limited Applicability
Large data can be extremely effective, but how widely applicable is it, really? A week or two ago the blogosphere was abuzz with discussion about the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data position paper by Googlers A. Halevy, P. Norvig, and F. … Continue reading
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Music Explaura: Exploration and Discovery in Action
Music Information Retrieval continues to be an excellent place to play around with the intersection of search, recommendation, user-guided exploration, and explanatory (transparent) algorithms. First, check out the announcement of Music Explaura from Stephen Green at Sun Research. Stephen writes:
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Is the Ad-Sponsored Web Search Market a Conversation?
It has now officially been ten years since Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger wrote the Cluetrain Manifesto, rekindling and reminding us of the centuries-old notion that markets are conversations between people, buyers and sellers. The following are a few … Continue reading
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Researcher on Fire
Over the past month and a half, computer science researcher and UQAM Professor Daniel Lemire has been on fire. He’s written a series of blog posts on what it means to do research and be involved with a research community. … Continue reading
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Collaborative Information Seeking (Ongoing Recap)
Now seems as good a time as any to post a quick recap of the series of collaborative information seeking posts that Gene and I have been writing over on Palblog. We’re about halfway through the series. Communicating about Collaboration … Continue reading
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Google Music China launches
Well, the move comes 9 years after I suggested it to ’em, but Google finally launches a music service: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2009/03/reuters_us_google_china Now, my only question is whether they have simultaneously been researching and implementing intelligent search algorithms to go with the … Continue reading
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