With 10 days to go to ECIR 2014, the ECIR 2014 proceedings are online now. You can find information about it at the Springer web site or access the online version directly at this page. Now playing: Portico Quartet — Rubidium
Month: March 2014
HPC grant
My colleague Lars Buitinck and I received a grant from the HPC fund to support the development of a more scalable version of xTAS, our extensible text analysis service. It’s the pipeline that we (and others) use for our text mining work. This is great news as it allows us to port modules to the…
The autonomous search engine
After Tuesday’s talk on personal data mining, I gave another talk to non-experts on Thursday. This time the topic was “The Autonomous Search Engine”. The backbone of the story is the move from supervised to weakly supervised technology development of one of the core components of search engines: rankers. Weak supervision in this context means…
Life mining talk
I gave a talk aimed at the general public on personal data mining last night, in Maastricht. The talk is about explaining what type of information can be mined from the content of open sources (news, social media, etc) using state of the art search and text mining technology. And the focus is on extracting personal information,…