Taxodiary – search

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 7

By Melody Smith|March 19th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 7

This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works. Next let’s look at an inverted file index, let’s pretend that this is the outline of the presentation. I have Define Key Terminology, Thesaurus Tools, Functions, Features, Class, Construction of the Thesaurus etc in the figure below. You can see that the word “Thesaurus” is used three times here. I have a number of other words that you might focus on to see where they are. If I am going to take these and make them into an inverted file, the simple inverted file index is just going to take them and make them into an alphabetic list. So it will sort the high ASCII characters first – the special characters and the numbers – and then it will sort the rest of them alphabetically.

The Advances of Search

By Melody Smith|March 19th, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on The Advances of Search

New developments in semantic search are popping up every day. This intelligence approach to finding what you want online quickly and easily has potentially huge implications for ecommerce.

1940 Census Available Digitally

By Melody Smith|March 15th, 2012|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on 1940 Census Available Digitally

Archives.com and the National Archives have worked together and set up a site where the 1940 census will be made available digitally and free of charge beginning April 2. This ends a 72-year wait for the records.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 6

By Melody Smith|March 12th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 6

This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works. Last week we ended with natural language processing and we are picking up this week on automatic language processing or ALP.

Understanding Intention

By Melody Smith|March 8th, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Understanding Intention

Fact-Finder is a well-known semantic search guru that just went live on a German online travel agency. This recent international adventure was the brain-child of Carsten Kraus, Fact-Finder founder.

Smart Search Equals Smart Content

By Melody Smith|March 8th, 2012|News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Smart Search Equals Smart Content

Medical search engine and database tools aren’t all equal. Depending on your needs, a clinician could gain access to dynamic data to diagnose and treat patients must faster than ever before. One of these options is ClinicalKey, which is now in beta testing.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 5

By Melody Smith|March 5th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, semantic|Comments Off on 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.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 4

By Melody Smith|February 27th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search|Comments Off on Leveraging 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?

Semantic Technology Used for Recruiting

By Melody Smith|February 21st, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic 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.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 3

By Melody Smith|February 20th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Leveraging 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.