But rarely (if ever) do they describe the interdisciplinary approach to information retrieval (IR) covering mathematics, computer science, library science, information architecture, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and statistics – to name but a...
To develop Translate for Animals, Google worked closely with with "leaders in the field of animal cognitive linguistics, including senior fellows at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The Wikipedians have been busy today updating all the Google hoaxes...
Beyond the obvious linguistics and cultural problems, the content is an exact copy. Unfortunately, some of these recommendations have been incorrect, confusing, or not focused on some of the biggest mistakes people make.
The focus on the Russian language is one key reason why Yandex is a fascinating case study in understanding how linguistics lead to success in multilingual SEO. ComScore released figures in August showing a significant rise in worldwide search...
Questions that Wolfram|Alpha doesn't understand (aka linguistics) It's been three months since Wolfram|Alpha launched as a search engine for structured data. But they haven't just sat back and hoped WA took off.
Instead, new technologies rely on expert systems based on time-tested principles of behavioral psychology and psychological linguistics that determine each user's preferences in real time. New web personalization technologies use behavioral...
SEM Firm Applies Century-Old Linguistics Law, ClickZ News The $44 billion deal would reshape the search engine marketing arena, teaming the number two and three players into a solid number 2. But if the deal does go through, there will be plenty of...
SEM Firm Applies Century-Old Linguistics Law, ClickZ News Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the...
MeaningMaster is the brainchild of Kathleen Dahlgren, a computational linguistics PhD who has spent most of her career building a lexicon of the This is a rant. It's a rant from over 10 years of watching people trot out natural language search as...
Bing Swen teaches at Peking University, and has been involved in SIGHAN, a Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the last Asian Information Retrieval Symposium. Microsoft marries email and search to provide a...
Resources from linguistics and beyond The Association of College Research Libraries (ACRL) is one organization that's part of the American Library Association. Each month, on our ResourceShelf site, I do my best to post a regular feature from their...
Launching service in October 2000, Search123 in April 2002, acquired Simpli.com from Net Zero, gaining a proprietary search technology developed by the linguistics department at Brown University. A special report from the Search Engine Strategies...
