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exploring semantic means. Daniel Tunkelang Chief Scientist, Endeca. about me. 1988 – 1992 1993 – 1998 1999 -. overview. a means, not an end exploratory search (HCIR) searching for meaning. do you like our owl?. a means, not an end.
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exploring semantic means Daniel Tunkelang Chief Scientist, Endeca
about me • 1988 – 1992 • 1993 – 1998 • 1999 -
overview a means, not an end exploratory search (HCIR) searching for meaning
a means, not an end The Semantic Web will improve the connections between knowledge on the web and software.
Skeptical reactions Practical feasibility An unrealized idea Censorship and privacy Doubling output formats Need so much religion, so little time vs.
what semantic means to (people who pay) me using linguistic and statistical approaches to derive meaning from unstructured text using semantic web approaches to represent meaning in content and query structure
exploratory search what i really care about what you should care about too especially if you see more toinformation seeking than google
what would google do? PageRank tf-idf SYSTEM: rank using IR model USER: information Need query select from results
assumptions of relevance-centric approach • self-awareness • self-expression • model knows best • answer is a document • one-shot query
human-computer information retrieval • don’t just guess the user’s intent • optimize communication • increase user responsibility and control • require and reward human intellectual effort “Toward Human-Computer Information Retrieval” Gary Marchionini
let’s make this concrete • Colleague:Hey Daniel! You should check out what this guy Steve Pollitt’s been researching. Sounds right up your alley. • Daniel:Sure thing, I’ll look into it.
how did we do that? • wisdom of crowds • corpus analysis • scope the problem • target exploratory search
a more current example All reviewers Reviewers Under 18
one last example “…As an example, I may be interested in the tensions between government and newly nationalized banks over the bonus culture that taxpayers are now funding (a hot topic in the UK currently)…” --a commenter at The Noisy Channel, in a discussion of exploratory search for news
in closing let’s not quibble over protocols exploration is the killer app for semantic tech it’s real, and it’s fabulous!
thank you communication 1.0 email: dt@endeca.com communication 2.0 blog: http://thenoisychannel.com twitter: http://twitter.com/dtunkelang