Information Retrieval
ERBlox: Combining Matching Dependencies with Machine Learning for Entity Resolution
Bahmani, Zeinab, Bertossi, Leopoldo, Vasiloglou, Nikolaos
Entity resolution (ER), an important and common data cleaning problem, is about detecting data duplicate representations for the same external entities, and merging them into single representations. Relatively recently, declarative rules called "matching dependencies" (MDs) have been proposed for specifying similarity conditions under which attribute values in database records are merged. In this work we show the process and the benefits of integrating four components of ER: (a) Building a classifier for duplicate/non-duplicate record pairs built using machine learning (ML) techniques; (b) Use of MDs for supporting the blocking phase of ML; (c) Record merging on the basis of the classifier results; and (d) The use of the declarative language "LogiQL" -an extended form of Datalog supported by the "LogicBlox" platform- for all activities related to data processing, and the specification and enforcement of MDs.
AllAnalytics - Pierre DeBois - How IoT and AI Devices are Changing Search
Yet despite this fact of marketplace nature, many companies that offer tech products and services face the daunting task of making changes that customers may perceive as messing with a very good thing, especially if the offering is wildly successful. Having a considerable share of the search engine marketplace against Bing and Yahoo, Google has become the default starting point for queries among many businesses, small and large, and an essential platform for optimizing digital marketing strategies. But now IoT home devices are rivaling search engines for consumer attention, potentially threatening their dominance in the long run. Clickz reported a BloomReach study that indicates Amazon's emerging position as a consumer starting point for product search and price comparison. The survey of 2,000 US consumers revealed that people are increasingly hitting the Amazon website first, with its share of surveyed respondents reaching 55%, an 11% increase over the previous year's results.
How to build a search engine: Part 4
This is the last part on building an end-end search engine. In this part we will take a look at how to go about building the front end. This will be an AngularJS application and will consist of some HTML and Javascript. All codes are readily available on Github along with the data itself. Here we will just do a walkthrough of what we are doing to make it all happen.
Google for the dark web: The US Government tech that could scour the hidden internet for criminal activity
In today's data-rich world, companies, governments and individuals want to analyze anything and everything they can get their hands on โ and the World Wide Web has loads of information. At present, the most easily indexed material from the web is text. But as much as 89 to 96 percent of the content on the internet is actually something else โ images, video, audio, in all thousands of different kinds of nontextual data types. A map showing hotbeds of dark web activity related to illegal products. Tor - short for The Onion Router - is a seething matrix of encrypted websites that allows users to surf beneath the everyday internet with complete anonymity. It uses numerous layers of security and encryption to render users anonymous online.
'Revenge porn victim' sues Google, Yahoo! and Bing demanding they delete her name
A New York City college student is taking internet giants Google, Yahoo! and Bing to court, demanding they delete her name from their search engines because she was the victim of revenge porn. According to the lawsuit, the 30-year-old woman broke up with her boyfriend last year, the New York Post reported. After the end of their three-month relationship, the man uploaded a video onto the internet of the two engaged in sexual acts. The video was secretly recorded by the ex-boyfriend without her knowledge, the lawsuit states. Because the woman is of West African descent, she has a unique four-letter last name, thus search results of her name are limited to the raunchy video.
How to build a search engine: Part 3
Assuming the dataset is named "people_wiki.csv", Executing this script will result in steaming logs which is ultimately leading to the data getting indexed in elasticsearch. That's how easy it is! Let's spend the next few lines on what actually happened. We declare our elasticsearch object configured on our local machine. Once that object is initialized we will use it to index all of our data.
How will Google's AI Improvements Change SEO for Marketers? โ Marketing and Entrepreneurship
If you prefer reading, here's the quick recap on what changes AI will bring to marketers according to these four industry influencers, plus some of my personal suggestions of what you should do in face of these changes: According to Sam Mallikarjunan, Head of Growth of HubSpot Labs, visual content will have an increasing influence on SEO, as he says, "search engines are getting good at knowing what a video, audio clip, or image is actually about." Not only does Google favor YouTube videos in search results, they're also getting better at analyzing what visual content is about. Just like how content writers had to learn to optimize headings and keywords, visual artists will have to start thinking about SEO when creating visual content like images and videos. SEO for videos, for example, means optimizing keyword targeting, descriptions, tags, video length, and more. Here's a great guide on optimizing videos for SEO from Brian Dean, if you want to learn more.
John Giannandreas Head of Google Search Machine Learning
We can all agree that being with a Google that long and contributing so much to search is a remarkable accomplishment and congratulate Singhal as he steps into a new time in life, focusing on philanthropy. As new leadership often means momentous refocusing, SEO professionals wonder how earned search may change as Giannandreas assumes this position, and if the change will generate ripples across the tech world as a whole. The future of how GoogleBot crawls and interprets web content looks promising under his leadership, as we observe how he impacts machine learning's future and how the Metaweb is woven. Amit went on to say that "search is stronger than ever, and will only get better in the hands of an outstanding set of senior leaders who are already running the show day-to-day. Our mission of empowering people with information and the impact it has had on this world cannot be overstated." John Giannandrea, who has been the forerunner overseeing artificial intelligence, such as in Google Algorithm RankBrain, has been employed at Google for six years and is currently the VP of engineering. As explained by Forbes in November, 2015 RankBrain's role took "a very large fraction" of the millions of queries that went through the search engine.
Flexible Models for Microclustering with Application to Entity Resolution
Betancourt, Brenda, Zanella, Giacomo, Miller, Jeffrey W., Wallach, Hanna, Zaidi, Abbas, Steorts, Rebecca C.
Most generative models for clustering implicitly assume that the number of data points in each cluster grows linearly with the total number of data points. Finite mixture models, Dirichlet process mixture models, and Pitman-Yor process mixture models make this assumption, as do all other infinitely exchangeable clustering models. However, for some applications, this assumption is inappropriate. For example, when performing entity resolution, the size of each cluster should be unrelated to the size of the data set, and each cluster should contain a negligible fraction of the total number of data points. These applications require models that yield clusters whose sizes grow sublinearly with the size of the data set. We address this requirement by defining the microclustering property and introducing a new class of models that can exhibit this property. We compare models within this class to two commonly used clustering models using four entity-resolution data sets.