Dr. Ellen Voorhees, over at TREC (NIST.GOV), sent me this Call for Papers: I would like to call the IR research community’s … More
Month: November 2007
A Case-Based Experience Sharing Search Engine
Mobyen Ahmed, Erik Olsson, Peter Funk, Ning Xiong from Department of Computer Science and Electronics, Malardalen University, Sweden have published … More
Web Mining Week 3
Week 3 Agenda 1. Introduction to Parsing: Building a Query Normalizer (PPT Presentation). 2. Understanding Search Engine Snippets via the … More
A PageRank-Rank Correlation?
On 11-16, Stephane Labert sent me copy of an article that attempts to correlate Google’s PageRank and the rank of … More
Web Mining Week 2
Week 2 Agenda: 1. The User-Machine Relevance Perception Gap (PPT presentation) 2. Introduction to Document Indexing (PPT presentation) 3. Linearization: … More
IRW-2007-11: The K-Means Algorithm
By now, current subscribers should have received the November issue of IR Watch – The Newsletter. The following topics are covered: … More
Dark Web Project and Web Mining
Prof Chen, UofArizona, has a fascinating project on Web Mining applied to Homeland Security called the Dark Web Project, over … More
Web Mining Week 1
Course Description The CECS 6824B/21 Special Topics in KDDM graduate course Web Mining: A First Course in Web Mining, Search … More
Terrier IR 1.1.1 Update
Craig MacDonald, from the Terrier project at University of Glasgow sent me this update few days ago. “Terrier, IR Platform v … More
Back to Business
Back to business. IRW will soon be out. This month issue covers the popular K-Means Algorithm and its variants. A back … More
IR Thoughts 