© 2009 endeca technologies, inc. all rights reserved. exploring semantic means daniel tunkelang...

© 2009 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.

exploring semantic means

Daniel TunkelangChief Scientist, Endeca

© 2009 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.2

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

The Semantic Web will improve the connections between knowledge on the web and software.


so much religion, so little time

Skeptical reactions

• Practical feasibility

• An unrealized idea

• Censorship and privacy

• Doubling output formats

• Need

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?

information Need query select from results

rank using IR model

USER:

SYSTEM:tf-idf PageRank


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.


google him!


google scholar him?


hcir-inspired interface


tags provide summarization and guidance


my information need evolves as i learn


how did we do that?

• wisdom of crowds

• corpus analysis

• scope the problem

• target exploratory search


if you prefer sports to computer science


a more current slide…


hcir can get fancy


and there’s query structure side of semantics


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


still in private beta…


following the information scent


to explore the 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 1.0email: [email protected]

communication 2.0blog: http://thenoisychannel.com

twitter: http://twitter.com/dtunkelang

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