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. Some of our resources include:
Search Engines Architecture Course - Agenda of the graduate course Search Engines Architecture.
Web Mining Course - Agenda of the graduate course Web Mining, Search Engines, and Business Intelligence.
IR Thoughts - A blog wherein we comment on IR and search engines and debunk search marketing myths.
IR Watch - A newsletter on research that normally does not reach mainstream.
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!
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.
Our Conference Engagements
See us at any of these conferences or events.
Location
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
Our Newsletter: IR Watch
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Current Issue
How much do you know about the architecture of a search engine?
Search Engines Architecture Review Test
Introduction
Early Architectures
First/Deep-Breadth Crawlers
Search Agents
Dispatcher
Forward Index
Inverted Index
Query Servers
Front/Back-End Servers
Lexicon/Thesaurus
Posting Lists
Search Results
Tokenization
Filtration
Stemming
Search Modes
News, Research, and Events
Terms of Use and Copyright
Who read IR Watch?
Our readers work in government, academic, and business sectors like
- Palo Alto Research Corporation, Inc. (PARC)
- US Naval Research Lab (NRL)
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- National Institute of Health (NIH)
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- University of Central Florida (UCF)
- Open Universiteit Nederland (OU)
- Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
- Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology (DA-IICT)
- University of Turabo (UT)
- Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR)
- C.E.S.A.R., Brazil
- Ursinus College
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM)
- XLDB Group, Universidad de Lisboa
- Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
- Politechnika Warszawska (PW)
- Facultet Elektrotechnike I racunarstva
- King Fahd University of Petrolewum & Minerals
- Intellectual Property Bank Corporation, Inc.(IPB Corporation)
- Elsevier, Inc.
- Yahoo, Inc.
- Intellisearch, Inc.
- Kaiser Permanente
- Matrixware Information Services
- and other places.
Our IR Tutorials
Read our 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
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
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 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.
