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Patent Portfolio Strategies of Amazon, Qualcomm, Tencent
Points to some marketing reports available for a fee. At the link.Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Portfolio Strategies
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I think the even more interesting case for using supply or demand is where supply vastly outstrips…
I think the even more interesting case for using supply or demand is where supply vastly outstrips demand and most intents are in the tail, e.g., searching through...
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You already see it on Amazon.
You already see it on Amazon. Do a search for “matrix”: not only do you only see Keanu Reeves movie results on the first page, but the left rail focuses on movies...
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Search: Intent, Not Inventory
When I enter a physical store, my intent is “I want to buy X” or “I’m looking for something in order to do X.” It’s not “Show me the products that satisfy characteristics...
From My Biased Coin
Crimson Editorial on Allston
This was the first Crimson editorial I can recall about the upcoming move computer science will be making to Allston next year. I'd encourage students (both undergraduate...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Are the World’s Top Websites Truly Accessible for Global Audiences?
Are the World’s Top Websites Truly Accessible for Global Audiences? An Evaluation of Acceptance of Email Addresses in 2019. By Mark W. Datysgeld, UASG Ambassador...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard Admissions Lawsuit Decision Out
As someone who reads a significant number of court documents and decisions (I still do expert witness work), I can recommend for your reading pleasure the very....
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Meet UASG Vice Chair Dušan Stojičević
Hello, my name is Душан Стојичевић. If you can’t read Serbian, how about Dušan Stojičević. Still having issues with pronouncing my name? Let’s try Dusan Stojicevic...
From My Biased Coin
Changing Times
An old friend from college sent me an e-mail, and it got me thinking. When I was an undergraduate at Harvard some significant number of years ago, I took the graduate...
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Off to ALGO/ESA 2019
I'm shortly hopping on a plane to head to ALGO/ESA. I'll be giving a survey-ish talk on Learning Augmented Algorithms, covering my work so far in the area as well...
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Dances with HiPPOs
Decision making, especially at technology companies, is supposed to be data-driven. Unfortunately, even in this wondrous age of science, decisions often depends...
From My Biased Coin
Happy New Academic Year: Teaching Randomized Algorithms
It seems I haven't written on this blog for a while.Today was the start of a new semester. I'll be teaching Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis, using...
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Martin, thanks for the kind words.
Martin, thanks for the kind words. The TunkRank that Jason Adams implemented has been down for a while. I’m not aware of any other implementation that is available...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
The Next Generation of Developers Set Their Sights on a Multilingual Internet
By Harish Chowdhary, UA Ambassador and Technology Analyst for the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) Twenty-four developers, a group with a unique role...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Breaking the Linguistic Barriers to Access the Internet
The 9th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2019) published a paper from members of the UASG. The paper explains IDNs, which are domain names in local languages...
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I’m hardly an expert on legal IR. But here are a few pointers:
I’m hardly an expert on legal IR. But here are a few pointers: Passage retrieval in legal texts [PDF] Passage Retrieval Starting from Patent Claims A Clef-Ip 2013...
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I can only offer high-level guidance in a comment thread.
I can only offer high-level guidance in a comment thread. But it sounds like you might benefit from collecting trigrams as well as bigrams. If mug tree stands are...
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I discuss it a bit in this post: https://queryunderstanding.com/query-expansion-2d68d47cf9c8
I discuss it a bit in this post: https://queryunderstanding.com/query-expansion-2d68d47cf9c8
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Broad and Ambiguous Search Queries
A typical approach for processing search queries is to retrieve a set of matching documents and then rank them with a relevance scoring function. This simple approach...
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Premature Optimization is (Still) the Root of All Evil
A lesson that we software engineers learn early in our careers is that “premature optimization is the root of all evil.” This gem of advice from the inimitableDonald...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group