Information Retrieval
Let's build a Full-Text Search engine - Artem Krylysov
Full-Text Search is one of those tools people use every day without realizing it. If you ever googled "golang coverage report" or tried to find "indoor wireless camera" on an e-commerce website, you used some kind of full-text search. Full-Text Search (FTS) is a technique for searching text in a collection of documents. A document can refer to a web page, a newspaper article, an email message, or any structured text. Today we are going to build our own FTS engine.
COVID-19 Knowledge Graph: Accelerating Information Retrieval and Discovery for Scientific Literature
Wise, Colby, Ioannidis, Vassilis N., Calvo, Miguel Romero, Song, Xiang, Price, George, Kulkarni, Ninad, Brand, Ryan, Bhatia, Parminder, Karypis, George
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has claimed the lives of over 350,000 people and infected more than 6 million people worldwide. Several search engines have surfaced to provide researchers with additional tools to find and retrieve information from the rapidly growing corpora on COVID-19. These engines lack extraction and visualization tools necessary to retrieve and interpret complex relations inherent to scientific literature. Moreover, because these engines mainly rely upon semantic information, their ability to capture complex global relationships across documents is limited, which reduces the quality of similarity-based article recommendations for users. In this work, we present the COVID-19 Knowledge Graph (CKG), a heterogeneous graph for extracting and visualizing complex relationships between COVID-19 scientific articles. The CKG combines semantic information with document topological information for the application of similar document retrieval. The CKG is constructed using the latent schema of the data, and then enriched with biomedical entity information extracted from the unstructured text of articles using scalable AWS technologies to form relations in the graph. Finally, we propose a document similarity engine that leverages low-dimensional graph embeddings from the CKG with semantic embeddings for similar article retrieval. Analysis demonstrates the quality of relationships in the CKG and shows that it can be used to uncover meaningful information in COVID-19 scientific articles. The CKG helps power www.cord19.aws and is publicly available.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) - TimesPost
Search Engine Marketing is a digital marketing strategy that helps to improve the visibility of the site in SERP. It is very important to rank in Search Engine Result Pages, and SEM helps us to rank in the list easily. To boost the traffic on the site, we need to implement some effective strategies, and SEM is one of the best marketing tools that helps to steadfast the traffic; it is a cost-effective way to get instant visibility and boost the website. To get an effective business presence on the internet, you need to have massive traffic on your site, and with regular SEO tips, nothing progressive will be achieved. Instead, try on the effective SEM techniques and notice some striking rise in the traffic.
Graph integration of structured, semistructured and unstructured data for data journalism
Balalau, Oana, Conceiç{ã}o, Catarina, Galhardas, Helena, Manolescu, Ioana, Merabti, Tayeb, You, Jingmao, Youssef, Youssr
Nowadays, journalism is facilitated by the existence of large amounts of digital data sources, including many Open Data ones. Such data sources are extremely heterogeneous, ranging from highly struc-tured (relational databases), semi-structured (JSON, XML, HTML), graphs (e.g., RDF), and text. Journalists (and other classes of users lacking advanced IT expertise, such as most non-governmental-organizations, or small public administrations) need to be able to make sense of such heterogeneous corpora, even if they lack the ability to de ne and deploy custom extract-transform-load work ows. These are di cult to set up not only for arbitrary heterogeneous inputs , but also given that users may want to add (or remove) datasets to (from) the corpus. We describe a complete approach for integrating dynamic sets of heterogeneous data sources along the lines described above: the challenges we faced to make such graphs useful, allow their integration to scale, and the solutions we proposed for these problems. Our approach is implemented within the ConnectionLens system; we validate it through a set of experiments.
DSC Data Science Search Engine
Data Science Fails – There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch While this latest DSC podcast isn't about sandwiches, it is related to lunch, specifically the no free lunch theorem. In short, the theorem states that no algorithm can be equally good at learning everything, which means that you can't know in advance which algorithm will work best on your data. Data Science Fails – There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch While this latest DSC podcast isn't about sandwiches, it is related to lunch, specifically the no free lunch theorem. In short, the theorem states that no algorithm can be equally good at learning everything, which means that you can't know in advance which algorithm will work best on your data.
Managing Data in Massive-Scale Vector Search Engine
The search based on Raw Data File is brute-force search which compares the distances between query vectors and origin vectors, and computes the nearest k vectors. Search efficiency can be greatly increased if the search is based on Index File where vectors are indexed. Building index requires additional disk space and is usually time-consuming. So what are the differences between Raw Data Files and Index Files? To put it simple, Raw Data File records every single vector together with their unique ID while Index File records vector clustering results such as index type, cluster centroids, and vectors in each cluster.
Elasticsearch for Data Science just got way easier
Elasticsearch is a feature-rich, open-source search-engine built on top of Apache Lucene, one of the most important full-text search engines on the market. Elasticsearch is best known for the expansive and versatile REST API experience it provides, including efficient wrappers for full-text search, sorting and aggregation tasks, making it a lot easier to implement such capabilities in existing backends without the need for complex re-engineering. Ever since its introduction in 2010, Elasticsearch gained a lot of traction in the software engineering domain and by 2016 it became the most popular enterprise search-engine software stack according to DBMS knowledge base DB-engines, surpassing the industry-standard Apache Solr (which is also built on top of Lucene). One of the things that makes Elasticsearch so popular is the ecosystem it generated. Engineers across the world developed open-source Elasticsearch integrations and extensions, and many of these projects were absorbed by Elastic (the company behind the Elasticsearch project) as part of their stack.
COVID-19 Literature Knowledge Graph Construction and Drug Repurposing Report Generation
Wang, Qingyun, Li, Manling, Wang, Xuan, Parulian, Nikolaus, Han, Guangxing, Ma, Jiawei, Tu, Jingxuan, Lin, Ying, Zhang, Haoran, Liu, Weili, Chauhan, Aabhas, Guan, Yingjun, Li, Bangzheng, Li, Ruisong, Song, Xiangchen, Ji, Heng, Han, Jiawei, Chang, Shih-Fu, Pustejovsky, James, Rah, Jasmine, Liem, David, Elsayed, Ahmed, Palmer, Martha, Voss, Clare, Schneider, Cynthia, Onyshkevych, Boyan
To combat COVID-19, both clinicians and scientists need to digest the vast amount of relevant biomedical knowledge in literature to understand the disease mechanism and the related biological functions. We have developed a novel and comprehensive knowledge discovery framework, \textbf{COVID-KG} to extract fine-grained multimedia knowledge elements (entities, relations and events) from scientific literature. We then exploit the constructed multimedia knowledge graphs (KGs) for question answering and report generation, using drug repurposing as a case study. Our framework also provides detailed contextual sentences, subfigures and knowledge subgraphs as evidence. All of the data, KGs, reports, resources and shared services are publicly available.
Understanding TF-IDF in NLP.
TF-IDF, short for Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency, is a numerical statistic that is intended to reflect how important a word is to a document, in a collection or Corpus(Paragraph).It is often used as a Weighing Factor in searches of information retrieval, Text Mining, and User Modelling. The TF-IDF value increases proportionally to the number of times a word appears in the document and is offset by the number of documents in the corpus that contain the word, which helps to adjust for the fact that some words appear more frequently in general. TF-IDF is much more preferred than Bag-Of-Words, in which every word, is represented as 1 or 0, every time it gets appeared in each Sentence, while, in TF-IDF, gives weightage to each Word separately, which in turn defines the importance of each word than others. Let's Consider these Three sentences: Let's assume a word "Good", in sentence 1, as we know, TF(t) (Number of times term t appears in a document) / (Total number of terms in the document). So, Number of times the word "Good" appears in Sentence 1 is, 1 Time, and the Total number of times the word "Good", appears in all three Sentences is 3 times, so the TF(Term Frequency) value of word "Good" is, TF("Good") 1/3 0.333.
A Startup Is Testing the Subscription Model for Search Engines
In November 2017, Sridhar Ramaswamy--the head of Google's $95 billion advertising arm--left the company after a scandal concerning advertisements for major corporations found on YouTube videos that put children in questionable situations. Ramaswamy told The New York Times that shortly after that incident, he decided that he needed to do something different in his life--because "an ad-supported model had limitations." This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. Ramaswamy's startup company, Neeva, is that "something different"--and though it, too, is a search engine, it seeks to sidestep some of Google's problems by avoiding the ads altogether. Ramaswamy says that the new engine won't show ads and won't collect or profit from user data--instead, it will charge its users a subscription fee.