Friday, August 26, 2011

How to deal with contextual synomys

Just read an interesting post on Lucid Imagination's Blog from Nicholas Chase:
How do you deal with contextual synonyms? For example, “bow” and “ribbon” are synonyms — unless you’re also looking for arrows.


That caught my attention and I read the entire post and slide show - highly recommend.

In short - how a company created an 'automated' testing method based on TREC and use it to tune relevance.  I for one would appreciate the release of SQUAT.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Faceted Search

Excellent blog post on faceted search by Tony Russell-Rose.

Metadata


Found a unique description to help describe what to use metadata for from Draves:

  • what you should learn first if you don't understand this sub-unit or data
  • what you should learn next if you do understand this sub-unit or data
  • what other sub-units or data this piece of data is related to
  • what kinds of people (jobs, industries, interest areas) might be interested in this subunit or data
  • what kinds of courses this sub-unit or data might be used for

Draves, W., Coates, J.(2007). Nine Shift Work, life and education in the 21st century. LERN Books. River Falls, WI. ISBN: 1-57722-030-7