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Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 5
This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works This time we are talking about the importance of relevancy. Relevance is how well a set of returned documents answers the information need, another way of talking about accuracy. But, it’s related to the objective of the search so different user communities can get exactly the same answer from a set of information resources and one will find the set relevant and the other will not. So, there’s a really healthy tension between the user needs and the context available. That’s why a lot of relevance engines do a lot of profiling of the users so that, if I search Google for a particular question, I might get one answer and each of you will search it and get a different answer. That’s because your profile and the things that you’ve clicked on in the past will indicate to Google that your answers should be more in this sphere or more in that sphere. So, relevance is really a confidence factor or a guesstimate on how well this set of documents will answer this particular user’s query.
Read MoreLeveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 4
As we continue this series on search and how it works, we have to address accuracy. First, how are we are going to measure accuracy?
Read MoreSemantic Technology Used for Recruiting
Preptel Corporation has made their official launch announcing their intent to provide optimization services for recruiters to improve a candidate’s chances of getting an interview and securing an offer.
Read MoreLeveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 3
This series of blog posts is exploring how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in. Last week we started talking about search software and today we will continue with that topic. I believe in the data first as you know. Staring in the diagram with your Source Data you can see how the data flows. You need to clean the source data to a uniform format. This is often called the conversion process or the ETL – Extract Transform and Load.
Read MoreIndustry Meeting on Search in Nice
There is a meeting coming up soon in Nice that might be worth your consideration. Granted, any meeting in Nice would be worth my consideration, but this one offers more than a great location. This is an international forum for those in the field of advanced search applications, data and text mining, and visualization technology. The primary focus of this meeting is on tools for intelligence and the meeting examines the requirements of specialists in scientific and technical information
Read MoreLeveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 2
This series of blog posts is exploring how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in. Last week we started with the various modules of search. This week we are addressing the search software itself.
Read MoreLeveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 1
This series of blog posts will explore how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in.
Read MoreThey Can’t Buy It If They Can’t Find It
One online retailer has expanded their website functionality to make findability of their products more user friendly and practical.
Read MoreSharePoint Gives Findability
Access to information is something we take for granted more and more every day. The Internet has changed our ability to find information and locate data, close or remote. Smart phones have taken that availability to unimagined realms. In the corporate world, there are still two groups – those who have findability of their data and those who do not.
Read MoreHitachi Looks to the Clouds
Hitachi Data Systems has aligned their product and portfolio around a three-tiered strategy that focuses on the cloud. This consists of infrastructure cloud, content cloud and information cloud to provide a single virtualization platform for all data.
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