LibraryThing (an online service to help people catalogue their books easily) recently launched a very useful feature that they call “Tag Mirror“. This is one of the more interesting things that has been done with tags. In fact, I would wager that this is one of the best thing to happen to tagging since tag [...]
A friend had once shown me something very interesting: no matter how many [u]s you use in [dude], Google always has results for it! (One of those results for some twenty-odd [u]s was a blog entry of his — that’s how he came up with this). I just decided to run this experiment using the [...]
We’ve created a page to gather together some of the tools that a researcher or engineer working on IR problems might find useful. Hopefully this will be useful to many.
Tools/Libraries for Information Retrieval
We will be updating that page as we come across more tools.
We are enabling comments on the page, please leave comments about any [...]
AIRWeb (Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web) is workshop on IR in the world of Web Spam. From the call for papers page:
Adversarial Information Retrieval addresses tasks such as gathering, indexing, filtering, retrieving and ranking information from collections wherein a subset has been manipulated maliciously. On the Web, the predominant form of such manipulation is [...]
There already are so many blogs on search why another? (just check out the blogroll on searchengineland.com)
There are at least a couple of reasons.
Information Retrival (or IR) is not exactly search. It is search and more. Much more.
Semantics aside, there is a second and probably more important reason: none of all those blogs discuss the [...]