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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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The most immediate context for a search query is a search session, a sequence of activities the searcher performs in order to pursue an information-seeking task...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 9, 2017 at 10:53 AM
Originally published in VentureBeat.Personal digital assistants have taken the world by storm. We have Siri and Google Assistant on our phones, and many of us have...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 4, 2017 at 11:21 AM
Originally posted on the Twiggle blog.In the previous post, we looked at measuring searcher behavior in order to evaluate search engine performance. Measuring searcher...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 1, 2017 at 10:08 PM
Originally posted on the Twiggle blog.Measuring the effectiveness of your search engine is hard. Fortunately, you have an army of volunteers helping you: your customers...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 1, 2017 at 10:01 PM
Originally posted on the Twiggle blog.At Twiggle, we’re all about improving the search experience. But how do we define improvement? As Lord Kelvin, one of history...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 1, 2017 at 09:15 PM
So far, we’ve focused on understanding searchers based entirely on the words they type into the search box. But search doesn’t occur in a vacuum. In the next posts...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 11, 2017 at 08:12 PM
As someone who often finds himself explaining machine learning to non-experts, I offer the following list as a public service announcement.
Machine learning means...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 5, 2017 at 01:34 PM
The previous post focused on how to determine the best autocomplete suggestions based on query probability and query performance. In this post, we’ll dive intoscope...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 1, 2017 at 05:03 PM
You’re absolutely right about the number of suggestions, of course. And it’s a good reminder that autocomplete user experience deserves its own post, which I promise...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 28, 2017 at 05:07 PM
In the past decade, autocomplete has become a required feature for search engines. Today, searchers who type into a search box expect to see autocomplete suggestions...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 28, 2017 at 10:18 AM
I agree with the judge about the balance of hardships, but that in itself wouldn’t have been sufficient to grant the injunction. The judge also ruled that “hiQ...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 18, 2017 at 01:15 PM
On August 14th, US District Judge Edward M. Chen granted a preliminary injunction to hiQ Labs in its case against LinkedIn. While I agree with part of the judge...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 16, 2017 at 01:08 AM
Here are a couple of relevant papers:
Scaling Semantic Parsers with On-the-Fly Ontology Matching
Ontology-Based Translation of Natural Language Queries to SPARQL...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 27, 2017 at 04:36 PM
In order to understand queries, it’s important to ground that understanding in a knowledge base. Two common ways to represent a knowledge base are taxonomies and...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 27, 2017 at 03:51 PM
Prithiviraj, thanks for the kind words. As for NER systems for English text only recognizing named entities in title case, that’s usually a function of how they...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 2017 at 11:15 AM
In the previous post on query scoping, we discussed query tagging as a special case of named-entity recognition (NER). In this post, we’ll dive a little bit deeper...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 30, 2017 at 09:31 AM
In the previous post, we discussed how query segmentation improves precision by grouping query words into semantic units. In this post, we’ll discuss query scoping...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 16, 2017 at 11:46 AM
The previous two posts focused on using query rewriting to increase recall. We can also use query rewriting to increase precision — that is, to reduce the number...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 28, 2017 at 02:51 PM
If you’ve followed me for a while, you know that I’m not a big fan of ad-supported business models. It’s not just that I find ads annoying; I also see them as economically...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 15, 2017 at 07:23 PM