Information Retrieval Intelligence
Your Source for Information Retrieval and Intelligence
"Where Marketing Meets Science"
Mi Islita is a research site about information retrieval, data mining, and search engine technologies. Our content is frequently referenced or used by both IR scholars and search engine marketers.
Resources
IR Watch - The Newsletter - A newsletter on research that normally does not reach mainstream.
IR Thoughts - A blog wherein we comment on IR and search engines and debunk search marketing myths.
IR Calls - A list of conferences and industry events we recommend you to attend.
IR Tutorials - Tutorials on Vector Space and LSI Models, Matrix Algebra, and more.
Educational Links - Graduate theses and research projects referencing Mi Islita.
Marketing Links - Search engine marketing articles referencing Mi Islita.
Recent Additions!
Fractal CSS Design as a Row Primary Technique - This paper describes fractal css design as a row primary technique. It is demonstrated that this approach helps to minimize the user-machine relevance perception mismatch. The impact of design on the parsing of documents is demonstrated. It is shown that replacing table-based layouts with CSS tableless design not necessarily produces equivalent layouts.
Fractal CSS Design - An Introduction to Iterated Layout Patterns with Applications to Web Page Design
IP Packet Fragmentation Tutorial - A Tutorial on IP Packet Fragmentation Analysis.
MTU and MSS Tutorial - A Tutorial on Maximum Transmission Unit and Maximum Segment Size Calculations.
RSJ-PM: Probabilistic Model Tutorial: - A Tutorial on the Robertson-Sparck Jones
Probabilistic Model for Information Retrieval.
PCA and SPCA Tutorial - A tutorial on Principal Component Analysis and Standardized PCA.
A Linear Algebra Approach to the Vector Space Model - An improved fast track tutorial.
Binary Similarity Calculator - Multiple similarity calculators accessible through a single interface.
Levenshtein Edit Distance Tool - A tool for making edits (insertions, substitutions, and deletions).
Feel free to inspect our site. Enjoy your staying.
Graduate Courses
- AIRWeb: Web Spam and Internet Vulnerabilities
- Covers Adversarial Information Retrieval, including Web Spam and Internet Vulnerabilities. Lectures are based on research papers presented at the AIRWeb Workshops. Blog Category
- Search Engines Architecture
- Covers the construction and implementation of main components utilized by search engines (forward and inverted indexes, web crawlers, parsers, search interfaces, etc). This is a hands-on course with lab sessions. Blog Category
- Web Mining and Business Intelligence
- Covers Web Mining, search engines, and business intelligence. Students will learn by doing: (a) how search engines index and rank web documents, (b) how to conduct business intelligence from online resources, and (c) how to apply Web Mining strategies and algorithms in their research or workplace. Blog Category
Information Retrieval Tutorials and Fast Tracks
Check these other IR Tutorials.
Recent Tutorials | LSI Category Posts | Hot Blog Post: A Call to SEOs Claiming to Sell LSI
Data Mining
Association and Scalar Clusters Tutorial - Part 1: Back Mapping Term Clusters to Documents
Row-Pruning Algorithm Tutorial
Matrix Algebra
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
Matrix Operations
Stochastic Matrices
Vector Space and Indexing
Document Indexing
Cosine Similarity
EF-Ratios
Probabilistic Models
RSJ-PM: Robertson-Sparck Jones Probabilistic Model
SVD and LSI
LSI Keyword Research and Co-Occurrence Theory
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) How-to Calculations
Computing the Full SVD of a Matrix
Computing Singular Values
Understanding SVD and LSI
Fast Tracks
LSI Keyword Research - A Fast Track Tutorial
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) Fast Track Tutorial
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) Fast Track Tutorial
Conference Engagements
See us at any of these conferences or events.
Location
W3C AIRWeb'09, Madrid, Spain - Program Committee Member 2009/04/21
2009 SIDIM XXIV University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras - Speaker: Scaled Inverse Document Frequency Abstract | Program and abstracts book 2009/3/6,7
University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon Lecture: Understanding Search Engines Abstract 2008/04/23
W3C AIRWeb'08, Beijing, China - Program Committee Member 2008/04/22
University of Turabo, Gurabo Lecture: Web Mining, Search Engines, and Information Security Abstract 2008/02/21
ICANN's 29th International Public Meeting - Attendee 2007/06/25
W3C AIRWeb'07, Banff, Canada - Program Committee Member 2007/05/08
Polytechnic University, Turing Lab Lecture: Search Engines, Vector Space Models, and LSI - Speaker 2007/04/26
IntekTel International Technology Conference and Expo, San Juan, Puerto Rico - Speaker 2007/04/12
Interamerican University, Bayamon Lecture: Introduction to Search Technologies, Dept of Electrical Engineering - Speaker 2007/03/16
OJOBuscador Congress 2, Madrid, Spain - Speaker 2007/03/08
About Mi Islita
Want to know more about this site?
Founded by Dr. E. Garcia, Mi Islita's main audience are university researchers, computer science students, and search engine marketers. Dr. Garcia's research interests include chemometrics, statistical optimization methods, applied fractal geometry, Chaos, and information retrieval. He is available for speaking engagements, peer review work, and consulting. For speaking engagements organizers are responsible for any travel and accomodation arrangements. For additional information contact admin@miislita.com.
Recent Peer Review Work
- W3C AIRWeb09; Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, PC Member.
- W3C AIRWeb08; Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, PC Member.
- Universidad del Turabo, School of Engineering Graduate Network Security Certificate Program, Puerto Rico Higher Education Council's evaluation committee president.
- W3C AIRWeb07; Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, PC Member.
- Computers & Graphics, an international journal on fractals, chaos, computer art, and visualizations of mathematics. Edited by Dr. Cliff Pickover, Associate Editor, Computers and Graphics, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.
- JASIST, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Edited by Dr. Donald Kraft, Lousiana State University.
- E-STREAMS, Edited by Dr. H. Robert Malinowsky, Professor and Manager of Collections Development, University of Illinois at Chicago Library.
