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4/28/2007          10:19:01 AM      Fractals in Information Retrieval: Splog Detection

4/27/2007          9:08:50 AM       C-Indices as Co-Retrieval Estimates

4/26/2007          8:19:05 PM       Thanks, Poly

4/25/2007          9:57:12 AM       W3C AIRWeb 2007 News: Spammers Served with the Papers

4/24/2007          8:04:59 AM       On Co-Occurrence and Search Engines

4/23/2007          12:50:59 PM      What SEOs are Realizing about LSI Myths

4/22/2007          9:49:13 AM       Futile!: User-Machine Relevance Comparisons & SEO Strength Tools

4/21/2007          10:35:28 AM      Building a Client-Side Parser

4/20/2007          9:15:05 PM       Presenting at Turin Lab of Polytechnical University

4/13/2007          9:45:25 PM       Google Monopoly

4/12/2007          9:28:13 AM       Intektel Conference Starts Today!

4/11/2007          4:11:35 PM       The Impact of Search Engines on Telecommunications

4/10/2007          2:41:47 PM       Being Referenced in an Honour Thesis

4/6/2007            8:19:01 AM       ICANN 29th Public Meeting in Puerto Rico

4/5/2007            8:51:59 AM       SEOs/Spammers, Beware: W3C AIRWeb07 Accepted Papers

4/4/2007            7:57:05 AM       GMAIL: Shootting Your Own Foot

4/3/2007            10:00:13 AM      LSA: A Goldmine for Educators, Curriculum Developers, and School Administrators

4/2/2007            10:24:14 AM      Snake Preview of IRW: Intellectual Property Searches

4/1/2007            12:33:01 PM      Weekend without Power

3/30/2007          12:32:44 PM      The Machine-Users Relevance Perception Gap

3/29/2007          8:34:28 AM        Call for Participation in INEX 2007

3/28/2007          12:55:56 PM      JavaScript Click Frauds

3/27/2007          3:32:51 PM       The Highly Structured Collections Challenge

3/26/2007          8:11:03 AM       Invited to the International Technology Conference & Expo of IntekTel

3/25/2007          4:35:46 PM       Testing, Testing, Testing...

3/24/2007          11:02:43 AM      Testing my Patent Search Tool

3/23/2007          10:42:59 AM      Spammers, SEOs Targeting .EDU Sites with Copy Persuasion Tactics

3/22/2007          9:15:27 AM       W3C2007 Banff Papers

3/21/2007          1:49:37 PM       On Typos and Patents

3/20/2007          7:25:03 AM       Our Tutorials are Required Readings at University of Maryland!

3/19/2007          10:00:29 AM      Mathematics of Language Workshop

3/18/2007          3:19:10 PM       Snake Preview of Patentes

3/17/2007          7:48:42 AM       The Hate-Love Story of IRs, Spammers, and SEOs

3/16/2007          8:03:02 AM       Lecturing at Interamerican University

3/11/2007          8:18:57 AM       Back and Some Sad News

3/7/2007            8:52:39 AM       Catch me at the Congress

3/6/2007            3:26:40 PM       Getting Ready for OjoBuscador Congress

3/5/2007            2:34:27 PM       Contextual Data in SERPs with LSI

3/4/2007            10:08:47 AM      Udating or Recomputing in LSI? Meet Folding-in Alternatives

3/3/2007            8:56:02 AM       LSI: Not a Document Indexing Algorithm

3/2/2007            9:02:22 AM       Japan Invitation  to the Great Information Navigation Project

3/1/2007            12:11:47 AM      Some Random Notes

2/28/2007          9:31:06 AM       Snake Preview of IR Watch 2007-3

2/27/2007          10:24:48 AM      Preview of a Patent Search Tool

2/26/2007          9:08:50 AM       Closeness, Proximity, Similarity, and Distance

2/25/2007          8:49:20 AM       On SEWF, Co-Occurrence, and Free-Riders

2/24/2007          9:01:06 AM       Referenced in an ASU Lecture

2/23/2007          8:19:38 AM       Being Referenced by a ComSIS Paper that Compares Search Engines

2/22/2007          10:05:49 AM      Free SEO Tip: Using Keywords in Documents

2/21/2007          10:14:56 AM      A Term Frequency-Importance Conjecture for SEOs

2/20/2007          10:45:41 AM      Entropy Weights and SEO Paranoic Ideas

2/19/2007          9:42:03 AM       LSI Term-Doc Matrix: Noise Reduction and Weights Redistribution

2/18/2007          11:08:46 AM      Site Changes

2/17/2007          10:16:55 AM      Software Review Requests: A Tale of Two Responses

2/16/2007          9:41:58 AM       This Month SIAM Conferences

2/15/2007          9:46:10 AM       Top Text Mining Software for Research, Academia, and Marketing

2/14/2007          9:08:50 AM       The Problem of Sparsification in LSI

2/13/2007          9:43:01 AM       W3C AIRWEB 07 Extended Deadline Announcement

2/12/2007          9:34:07 AM       Why SEOs have LSI Backward

2/11/2007          1:35:08 PM       Dirac Notation in IR

2/10/2007          10:06:16 AM      How to Read Research Papers

2/9/2007            11:33:45 AM      Big O Notation Tutorials

2/8/2007            9:02:16 AM       Making the Notre Dame Resource List of Markov Chains

2/7/2007            9:21:20 AM       Ontologies as Expectations of Co-Occurrence and Homeland Security

2/6/2007            10:22:12 AM      Book on PageRank and Beyond

2/5/2007            2:37:20 PM       1st Euro Workshop on LSI in Techno-Enhanced Learning

2/3/2007            8:36:07 AM       Reactions to IRWatch - Newsletter

2/2/2007            9:20:49 AM       New LSI work for Updating the SVD Matrix in LSI

2/1/2007            12:03:42 AM      IRW-2007-2: Understanding EF-Ratios

1/31/2007          10:41:00 AM      Using Local Weights Only

1/30/2007          9:00:39 AM       Understanding Local Weights

1/29/2007          10:23:07 AM      The Pulse Around

1/28/2007          9:31:59 AM       Global Weights with Entropy

1/27/2007          9:27:33 AM       Custom Searches in IDP

1/26/2007          8:03:27 AM       Call for Participation: 2007 Computer Security Awareness Video Contest

1/25/2007          9:24:50 AM       LSI Ruby Classifier

1/24/2007          12:34:50 PM      Snake Preview of IRW - The Newsletter

1/23/2007          1:57:19 PM       IPAM: Mathematics of Knowledge and Search Engines Program

1/22/2007          9:23:22 AM       Upcoming IPAM Events

1/21/2007          9:13:52 PM       The Law of Search Engines Conference

1/20/2007          8:28:24 AM       Upcoming Search Engine Conference with Mi Islita

1/19/2007          9:22:14 AM       SEO: Science, Snakeoil Marketing or What?

1/18/2007          9:30:56 AM       Academic Research Opportunities with Microsoft Live Labs

1/17/2007          10:07:57 AM      Dr. Peter Turney and LRA

1/16/2007          10:20:45 AM      ResearchChannel: LRA, Microsoft Behind the Code, and more.

1/15/2007          4:54:03 PM       Snake Preview of IDP

1/14/2007          3:02:43 PM       Update on Pet Project

1/13/2007          12:44:44 PM      Infonortics Conference

1/12/2007          9:38:08 AM       Research on Web Spam at 2007 W3C AIRWeb Conference

1/11/2007          10:53:07 AM      Upcoming SIGIR Conferences

1/10/2007          9:39:52 AM       Complete list of SIGIR Awards

1/9/2007            9:31:49 AM       IR Videos from SIGIR and RCVL

1/8/2007            5:15:17 PM       Back to Business!

1/7/2007            2:31:46 PM       Students: Whatever You do, Do not Use Google

1/6/2007            10:35:36 AM      Upcoming SIGIR Conferences

1/5/2007            9:53:45 AM       Quantum Haystacks

1/4/2007            9:45:11 AM       New Directions in Multilingual Information Access

1/3/2007            10:03:06 AM      Web2.0: Social Bookmarking Services

1/2/2007            2:26:13 PM       Understanding How Users Update their Queries

1/1/2007            9:49:42 AM       Starting the Year with IRW

12/31/2006        10:13:57 AM      Sneak Preview of IRW

12/30/2006        9:29:17 AM       IR Relevancy vs. Suggestion Task Relevance

12/29/2006        1:15:18 PM       Top 10 Search Terms from HitWise

12/28/2006        9:37:46 AM       How do users reformulate their queries?

12/27/2006        9:47:52 AM       Web Search Rankings based on User Behaviors

12/26/2006        4:18:55 PM       Query Chains, Anyone?

12/25/2006        9:04:03 AM       Does Wikipedia Resemble the Web?

12/24/2006        4:33:33 PM       Out for the Holiday.

12/23/2006        10:05:32 AM      Google on Link Baiting

12/22/2006        5:29:32 PM       Brute Force vs. Query Expansion through Relevance Feedback

12/21/2006        1:55:15 PM       A Tag Cloud of Lies

12/20/2006        9:20:12 AM       News from Yahoo

12/19/2006        12:21:32 PM      Google Top Searches and Keyword-Brand Associations

12/18/2006        9:31:37 AM       MSN, LYCOS, and AOL Top Searches and Keyword-Brand Associations

12/17/2006        4:39:43 PM       Some CSS Tips

12/16/2006        9:59:20 AM       Some Great News from Google

12/15/2006        10:03:43 AM      TMG: MATLAB Tool for Creating Term-Doc Matrices from Collections

12/14/2006        9:00:04 AM       Official Call for Papers for WWW2007 AIRWeb Workshop

12/13/2006        8:51:33 AM       UCLA Computer Breach Case and a Paradigm: Universities Never Learn

12/12/2006        9:48:04 AM       On Relevance Feedback, Query Expansion, and Query Chains

12/11/2006        7:45:48 AM       Why an Interface Project?

12/10/2006        10:17:29 AM      2007 TREC Conference and Call for Participation

12/9/2006          12:20:34 PM      Distributable Multi Search Interfaces

12/8/2006          11:44:20 AM      LSI, Term Vectors, and Keyword-Brand Associations

12/7/2006          11:14:00 AM      Understanding the Co-Retrieval Space

12/6/2006          11:33:33 AM      Why Keyword-Brand Associations are So Important

12/5/2006          9:11:52 AM       Keyword-Brand Associations and the Human Brain

12/4/2006          1:47:45 PM       IRW-December Issue is Out!

12/3/2006          9:06:55 AM       Natural Language Parsing (NLP)

12/2/2006          8:56:01 AM       Old Research on Word Associations and Co-Occurrence

12/1/2006          8:45:38 AM       User-to-System Normalizations

11/30/2006        11:27:05 AM      IRW Dec Issue: Co-Retrieval, Co-Occurrence, Branding and Brain Activities

11/29/2006        8:27:38 AM        Readings in LSA for Cognitive Science and Education

11/28/2006        8:53:45 AM       LSI and the Tilde Symbol

11/27/2006        11:08:05 AM      A Typical December

11/26/2006        10:04:21 AM      Why We Have Removed Alexa

11/25/2006        11:10:29 AM      LSI: A Performance-Dimensionality Phenomenon Hypothesis

11/24/2006        3:36:17 PM       Analizing MSN Search Funnel

11/23/2006        7:50:04 PM       Thanksgiving

11/22/2006        11:36:10 AM      TV/Radio Ads and Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Words

11/21/2006        9:56:33 AM       Simplest Way to Compute Cosine Similarities - Part II

11/20/2006        9:20:32 AM       Semantic Networks

11/19/2006        8:34:49 AM       Thesauri Generation

11/18/2006        8:57:57 AM       Clustering Algorithm References

11/17/2006        8:37:43 AM       How Many Clusters Are Out There?

11/16/2006        8:56:09 AM       ACM Fifteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

11/15/2006        10:08:24 AM      What happened with them?

11/14/2006        9:55:05 AM       When LSI is Contraindicated

11/13/2006        8:36:03 AM       Cosine Similarities and Web Analytics

11/12/2006        8:42:22 AM       Jaccard Coefficients

11/11/2006        4:32:50 PM       Simple Matching Coefficients and Consumer Questionnaires

11/10/2006        7:54:53 AM       Universities to Offer Courses and Research in Web Sciences

11/9/2006          9:18:52 AM       Dice Coefficient

11/8/2006          9:51:59 AM       PCA Is Not LSI

11/7/2006          9:01:14 AM       Understanding Multidimensional Scaling by Visualizing Correlations

11/6/2006          9:11:34 AM       Program of 2007 OJOBucador Congress

11/5/2006          11:51:43 AM      IR Measures and Web Metrics

11/4/2006          8:32:12 AM       City-Block and Euclidean Distances

11/3/2006          9:28:58 AM       IPAM Upcoming Programs and Workshops

11/2/2006          10:56:26 AM      November Issue of IR Watch

11/1/2006          9:33:58 AM       Similarity Measures and Search Engine Marketing

10/31/2006        9:04:03 AM       Answer to Challenge Question

10/30/2006        11:21:03 AM      A Challenge Question

10/29/2006        10:57:04 AM      Understanding Disimilarities (Distances)

10/28/2006        11:05:16 AM      Clustering Objects with Different Scales

10/27/2006        9:27:38 AM       Block-Level Link Analysis Test

10/26/2006        9:10:43 AM       When cosine similarities equal dot product similarities

10/25/2006        2:44:38 PM       Defining Co-Occurrence

10/24/2006        9:33:09 AM       From Term Vector to LSI to PLSI to LDA

10/23/2006        8:03:06 AM       Invited to W3C AIRWeb 2007

10/22/2006        1:56:06 PM       Important BlueBit Upgrade for SVD Calculations

10/21/2006        1:15:16 PM       BlueBit Calculator Gives now Transpose of V directly.

10/20/2006        10:38:55 AM      There is No Such Thing as LSI-Friendly Documents

10/19/2006        8:52:48 AM       SVD and LSI Tutorial 5 and Fast Track is Available Now

10/18/2006        8:54:37 AM       Snake Preview of SVD and LSI Tutorial 5

10/17/2006        9:47:42 AM       Hierarchical Domain Structure and Similarity Measures

10/16/2006        8:54:18 AM       Karen Sparck-Jones  and Stephen Robertson Letters

10/15/2006        10:37:10 AM      The IDF Page: Origins of the IDF Concept

10/14/2006        10:05:35 AM      SVD and LSI Tutorial 5: Keyword Research with LSI

10/13/2006        9:26:03 AM       Two LSI Blogonomies from SEOs

10/12/2006        9:10:29 AM       Free SEO Advice: On Experiments from Top N Ranked Results

10/11/2006        10:14:38 AM      Two Great Resources

10/10/2006        8:52:48 AM       Learning a Distance Metric from Relative Comparisons

10/9/2006          2:29:22 PM       A New Study on Distance Metrics as Similarity Measurements

10/8/2006          10:21:35 AM      How many Term Weight Formulas are Out There?

10/7/2006          9:35:39 AM       On Similarity and Relatedness

10/6/2006          3:02:51 PM       The IR Happy Hour

10/5/2006          10:05:25 AM      On Keyword Research, Co-Occurrence and Contextuality

10/4/2006          9:07:57 AM       Upcoming Articles on C-Indices

10/3/2006          9:49:23 AM       Comments on Mike Grehan ClickZ Column on LSI

10/2/2006          8:30:49 AM       Which Term Weight to Use?

10/1/2006          10:37:26 AM      Sending Out IRW Issue 2

9/30/2006          2:10:37 PM       Snake Preview of IR Watch

9/29/2006          9:16:53 AM       Microsoft SEO Tools

9/28/2006          9:08:46 AM       AJAX and W3C Accessibility Guidelines

9/27/2006          11:58:00 AM      Free SEO Advice

9/26/2006          10:52:52 AM      More on SEO Forums and LSI

9/25/2006          8:51:38 AM       On Crawling and Indexing

9/24/2006          4:56:22 PM       What is an Inverted Index

9/23/2006          10:09:21 AM      Random Note on SEO Forums

9/22/2006          8:34:15 AM       LSI Fast Track Tutorial

9/21/2006          11:08:16 AM      LSI Fast Track Tutorial is Next

9/20/2006          12:56:10 PM      SVD and LSI Tutorial 4 is Here

9/19/2006          1:49:46 PM       Tomorrow is the Day

9/18/2006          9:29:43 AM       Beware of "LSI Based" Tools

9/17/2006          9:36:01 AM       SVD and Chatroom Surveillance

9/16/2006          11:20:20 AM      Snake Preview of SVD and LSI Tutorial 4

9/15/2006          8:18:36 AM       Representing Documents and Queries in the Same Space

9/14/2006          8:31:56 AM       NAACL HLT 2007 Preliminary Call for Papers

9/13/2006          9:20:58 AM       NonNegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) in Chemistry and Medicine

9/12/2006          9:42:11 AM       SVD Fast Track Tutorial

9/11/2006          10:05:06 AM      SVD and LSI Tutorial 3 is Available Now

9/10/2006          9:52:04 AM       Snake Preview of SVD and LSI Tutorial 3: Computing the Full SVD

9/9/2006            9:32:18 AM       A Model for Computing Context Vectors from Term Co-Occurrence

9/8/2006            11:12:13 AM      PhD Thesis: Document ranking using web evidence

9/7/2006            8:18:51 AM       Holographic Reduced Representations (HRRs) in IR

9/6/2006            11:34:31 AM      PhD Thesis: Understanding LSI via the Term-Term Truncated Matrix

9/5/2006            9:11:14 AM       Latent Semantic Indexing News

9/4/2006            8:47:06 AM       Get IR Watch and Play with SVD Code

9/3/2006            10:36:16 AM      Launching of IR Watch - The Newsletter

9/2/2006            10:19:24 AM      Orthogonal Matrices

9/1/2006            8:59:10 AM       Links as Votes of Citation Importance?

8/31/2006          9:20:24 AM       High Order Co-Occurrence

8/30/2006          9:45:59 AM       Addressing some questions on Term Vector Theory

8/29/2006          9:49:17 AM       Upcoming Tutorials

8/28/2006          2:49:16 PM       Go Ahead. Make My LSI Day

8/27/2006          11:07:41 AM      Simplest Way to Compute Cosine Similarity Values

8/26/2006          8:45:34 AM       An LSA Tutorial and Notes on SVD in HPLC Chemistry

8/25/2006          11:00:02 AM      Latest SEO Incoherences (LSI)

8/24/2006          2:06:41 PM       Tutorials on PCA and LDA

8/23/2006          9:13:25 AM       On Logs and Security

8/22/2006          11:14:38 AM      Master Thesis: Information Retrieval with Genetic Programming

8/21/2006          10:03:13 AM      Fractal Concept Decomposition vs. LSI and Vector Space

8/20/2006          9:08:07 AM       Why SEM and Spammers Should Learn LSI How-to Calculations

8/19/2006          9:24:29 AM       On Fools and Phonies: How can I know if it is real?

8/18/2006          9:27:49 AM       Erdos Numbers  from 25 Years of SIGIR and the Diamond Dozen

8/17/2006          2:04:37 PM       Latent Semantic Indexing Resources

8/16/2006          9:08:52 AM       Document Collections as Fractal Clusters

8/15/2006          8:30:25 AM       University of Chicago Workshop: What to Do with a Million Books

8/14/2006          10:56:36 AM      Snake Preview of IR Watch - The Newsletter

8/13/2006          12:03:05 PM      Top 13 Hard-to-Find Applied Mathematics Papers

8/12/2006          11:09:38 AM      Updates: LSI Tutorial and NetLogo Software

8/11/2006          3:34:38 PM       SVD and LSI Tutorial is Here!

8/10/2006          9:46:43 AM       Snake Preview of SVD and LSI Tutorial

8/9/2006            9:53:21 AM       NMF and Text Mining Approaches for Email Surveillance

8/8/2006            9:49:58 AM       Telcordia Distributed LSI and a Possible Security Risk

8/7/2006            9:00:30 AM       Professor Keith van Rijsbergen Wins The Gerard Salton Award

8/6/2006            9:37:13 AM       Search Engine Marketers and their LSI Myths

8/5/2006            9:45:47 AM       Master Thesis: A Language-Based Approach to Categorical Analysis

8/4/2006            9:43:58 AM       SIGIR 2006 Workshops

8/3/2006            10:48:20 AM      SIGIR 20006 Demos and Doctoral Consortium Sessions

8/2/2006            9:41:58 AM       This Week is SIGIR  2006

8/1/2006            10:09:21 AM      Stanford Group: Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Datasets

8/1/2006            10:04:13 AM      Random Notes

7/31/2006          11:17:56 AM      SIAM Call for Tutorials on Data Mining

7/30/2006          11:05:45 AM      Prof. Keith Rijsbergen Views On Relevance and Aboutness

7/29/2006          1:29:29 PM       Eigenvectors and Reggaeton Music

7/28/2006          2:00:56 PM       On Fractals, Multifields, PCA and IRs

7/27/2006          8:59:39 AM       Prof. Gene Golub and Two New PageRank Abstracts

7/26/2006          11:36:11 AM      Computing accurately ordered PageRank scores

7/26/2006          10:30:01 AM      Two SIAM Conferences this Week and a Rumor

7/25/2006          9:00:56 AM       IPAM Course: Mathematics of Knowledge and Search Engines

7/24/2006          10:19:19 AM      The Myths and Math of SEO - The Interview

7/23/2006          10:23:01 AM      Readers Questions on Eigenvalues and Software Tutorials

7/22/2006          12:04:33 PM      L-System Fractals and Web Crawlers?

7/22/2006          8:21:45 AM       NetLogo Workshop and Argonne National Lab Conference

7/21/2006          11:14:47 AM      Software Code for Implementing Term Vectors and LSI

7/20/2006          1:08:16 PM       On SVD and PCA: Some Applications

7/19/2006          10:31:18 AM      Upcoming Tutorials: LSI (SVD) and Covariance Analysis (PCA)

7/18/2006          11:49:57 AM      How about an IR-SEM Event?

7/17/2006          11:39:27 AM      Matrix Tutorial 3: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

7/16/2006          11:03:12 AM      For Data Mining Managers: W3C WWW2006 Data Mining Session

7/15/2006          1:23:54 PM       Snake Preview of Matrix Tutorial 3

7/14/2006          10:27:07 AM      Matrix Inversion

7/13/2006          11:24:36 AM      Release of  NetLogo 3D Preview: 3D Worlds for you to see

7/13/2006          10:13:54 AM      For SEM Managers: WWW2006 WebMining Session

7/12/2006          4:43:10 PM       2007 Search Engine Meeting from Infonortics

7/12/2006          10:13:58 AM      For Web2: WWW2006 W3C Semantic Tagging Session

7/11/2006          9:51:42 AM       For SEOs: How they were described at the WWW2006 W3C Web Spam Session

7/10/2006          1:06:41 PM       Demystifying LSA, LSI, SVD, PCA, and IS ACRONYMS

7/9/2006            2:29:12 PM       Designing web sites using Term Vector, Text Clustering and Link Analysis

7/9/2006            1:42:37 PM       Two Great Research Papers by Dr. Brian Davison

7/8/2006            12:47:01 PM      SEO Blogonomies: The Search Engine Markov Chain

7/7/2006            11:26:55 AM      Invited to 2007 OjoBuscador Congress - March 15-16, Madrid, Spain

7/6/2006            10:15:41 AM      Matrix Tutorial 2 - Matrix Operations

7/5/2006            10:26:26 AM      NetLogo Upgrade

7/4/2006            11:29:33 AM      Happy 4th of July

7/3/2006            4:40:32 PM       Matrix Tutorial 1 - Stochastic Matrices

7/3/2006            9:04:30 AM       Some definitions

7/2/2006            10:56:53 AM      2006 TREC Tracks

7/1/2006            9:33:10 AM       Entrez and NSDL, Two Great Search Resources

6/30/2006          3:15:10 PM       What’s Next

6/29/2006          3:16:26 PM       Understanding EF-Ratios

6/28/2006          11:58:43 AM      Learning The Vector Space Model

6/27/2006          4:14:25 PM       Welcome to IR Thoughts