 Do you see a pattern? by ZDNet‘s Esther Dyson — What’s beyond current search technology? A lot, and most of it has to do with pattern recognition. Come see some patterns with me… Esther Dyson is a brilliant thinker…
Pattern Recognition
Google and Images
A game developed at CMU by researchers to tag images has become popular in image search community. This game was presented at CHI conference by Ahn and Dabbish. First Yahoo started using this philosophy and now Google has licensed this…
Vision and/or Hype in Search
Sometimes it is difficult to separate vision from hype. A recent report about search engines (see News.com report) is a good example of this. It reports: “Search engines try to train us to become good keyword searchers. We dumb down…
Text Mining NYT
A team from University of California, Irvine (from Bren School of Information and COmputer Science; my school) has demonstrated a powerful text mining approach based on topic modeling. This approach is based on a ‘bag of word’ model to represent…
Words: The BoW
With increasing popularity of video, approaches are being explored to convert speech to text so textual approaches could be used. Interestingly, most speech to text systems work very well when in speech there are minimal emotions. So our search engines…