Text processing
Search Capabilities Expanding to Arabic Language
June 4, 2010 – The recently unveiled SAMAR Project team consists of the French government and international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). Their goal is to find a high-quality semantic search strategy for AFP’s Arabic-language news, audio, and video multimedia content. The Arabic language presents unique challenges for content producers. The difficult linguistic patterns prohibit…
Read MoreITC Infotech Escalates its Metatagging Solution
June 4, 2010 – Several years ago we heard about ITC Infotech, the India-based services company, and its Metatag+ solution. In 2009, the Gilbane Group published “ITC Infotech Introduces New Solution for the Media and Entertainment Industry.” The product dropped off our radar. Yesterday we fielded an inquiry about Metatag+. Our recollection is that the…
Read MoreMicrosoft Research Approach to Hierarchical Taxonomy Building
June 3, 2010 – Earlier this year we learned about a novel method for building taxonomies. We located on Microsoft Research’s Web site the complete paper, “Building Taxonomy of Web Search Intents for Name Entity Queries.” Like most technical papers, there is a hefty dose of math, but in this paper the authors have provided…
Read MoreBuilding a Keyword List
June 3, 2010 – One of the methods we use to build a keyword list requires good, old-fashioned research. In the days of 4×6 notecards, library time was an essential first step. We recently learned about a shortcut that is rumored to be popular among some of the search engine optimization specialists. We wanted to…
Read MoreCompliance and Indexing
June 2, 2010 – “Backing Up Corporate Data – How Deduplication Helps” references indexing but the focus is on the challenge of deduplication. Indexing can be a help in certain deduplication operations, and it can be a problem. In free form indexing environments, a document may have different index terms assigned. Is this enough to…
Read MoreSEO and LSI May Help Boost Your Web Site in a Results List
June 2, 2010 – SEO is an acronym for search engine optimization. The idea is that indexing, content, and links can boost a Web page in a Google’s search result list. LSI is shorthand for latent semantic indexing. A definition from PCForHire says: LSI uses word associations to help search engines know more accurately what…
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