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Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Yahoo Boss and better search service for academic libraries
An opportunity for academic libraries to leverage Yahoo Boss. Meanwhile Microsoft moves along in their effort for "free tools and services to support the Scholarly Communications lifecycle"
Saturday, August 02, 2008
Microsoft focus in tools and services for academics
Tony Hey, VP for the External Research Division within Microsoft Research explains to John Udell the agenda and focus of his division:
Four focus areas:
health and wellness
E3 earth/energy/environment
computer science
education and scholarly communication
" In addition we have what we call ARTS: Advanced Research Tools and Services. There we're trying to develop tools and services that academics and computer scientists will find valuable."
Monday, July 23, 2007
Understanding user intent when presenting search results
A paper "Random Walks on the Click Graph" by Nick Craswell, and Martin Szummer both from Microsoft Research will be presented SIGIR 2007.
“We are trying to find,” Craswell explains, “a high-quality set of synonymous queries and results. Because our work is based on a large set of user click data, we’re getting a handle on user intent. Whereas click data can only go from a precise query to a set of documents, we find larger clusters of related queries and information.”
Click data, on which the project relies, provides the means to analyze the results for a particular query. The engine devised by Craswell and Szummer considers the history of all the people who ever typed that query and the preference of those users according to which results were often clicked. The history of which results were selected for which queries is click data.
“Click-based methods,” Craswell notes, “are a very good way of understanding the dominant intent.”
In doing so, the researchers are able to take a look at queries that are synonymous, but “synonymous queries,” as it turns out, are not quite what you might expect.
“Interestingly,” Craswell says, “the definition of what’s a synonymous query is different from synonyms you would find in a thesaurus. It’s very specific to search and depends on understanding user intent.” via Microsoft Research
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Microsoft releases Astoria
"The goal of
"In order for the system to understand and leverage semantics over the data that is surfacing,
It would be very interesting to see how researchers and scientists will use scientific data with Astoria...
Sunday, February 18, 2007
OpenURL and Digital Archiving
John Udell (now with Microsoft) interviews Dan Chudnov (Yale University) and Tony Hammond (Nature) on OpenURL, DOIs and related issues.
"I think that the issues that libraries and academic publishers are wrestling with — persistent long-term storage, permanent URLs, reliable citation indexing and analysis — are ones that will matter to many businesses and individuals." via John Udell
Is there a hint here that Microsoft can be moving to digital archiving similar to Amazon?
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Opportunities for growths in the wake of disruption
is this year's NFAIS 2007 Annual Conference theme. No doubt that Google and Microsoft have changed the way that our users are accessing to our content. But one thing that I have been hearing from end users is that there is a love and hate relationship with Google when they look for information in Google, hence more opportunities for content producers....
In the past few years we had Google members in this conference courting publishers to include their content in their index and showing the benefit of being indexed by Google. Personally I am all for the publishers to include their content where their users start their search. It would be interesting to see if any representative from Google or Microsoft will attend this year's meeting. If you are looking how to register, here is their online registration .
I am looking forward to meet and hear the final key note speaker Tony Hey who is the Corporate VP for Technical Computing with Microsoft.
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