Search Engines--Conference Presentations Presentations from the Search Engine Meeting
On April 15th some of the biggest names in the search world met in San Francisco for the Seventh Annual Search Engine Meeting. Now, most of the presentations (Powerpoint slides) are available on the web. This is "must look at" material.
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--- Clare Hart (Factiva, NJ)
The Future of Search Engines
- Jim Bair (Strategy Partners International, CA)
What Content and Knowledge Management Require of Search Engines
- Amanda Spink (Penn State University, PA)
A Human Information Behavior Approach to the Future of Search
- Avi Rappoport (SearchTools.com, CA)
Can P2P Search Engines Work in the Real World?
- Jay Ven Eman (Access Innovations, NM)
Tame the Terabyte Terror - Taxonomy Tools Explained
- Susan Feldman (IDC, MA)
Find What I Mean, Not What I Say
- John McKechnie (Construction Informatics Research Centre, UK)
Computer Assisted Processing of Large Unstructured Document Sets
- Marti Hearst (UC Berkeley, CA)
Using Dynamic Metadata to Improve Search User Interfaces
- Laurent Proulx, (Nstein Technologies, Quebec, Canada)
To SEEK and not to FIND. What is your Question?
- Daniel Lulich (RuleSpace, OR)
Roopangi Kadakia (FirstGov, DC) David Evans (Clairvoyance, PA)
Technical Dimensions of "Responsibility"
- Stephen Arnold (AIT, KY)
Mereology and its Associated Tools: New Advantages in the Search Arena
- Chahab Nastar (LTU Technologies, France)
Making Sense of Visual Content
- Andrew Littlefield (Inktomi, CA)
Effective Enterprise Information Retrieval across New Content Formats
- Donna Harman (NIST, MD)
The TREC Question-Answering Track
- Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse University, NY)
Why Settle for a List When You Want an Answer?
- David Hawking (CSIRO, Australia)
Intranet Search: What Works and What Doesn't
-- Horst Baumgarten (Roche Diagnostics, Germany)
Empowering a Corporate Intranet with a Broad Range of Search Applications
- Robert Ainsbury (EoExchange, CA)
How to extract 'Universal Search' out of Intranet Solutions
- Neil Margolis (Wyeth-Ayerst Research, PA)
Search for a Search Engine: Selecting and Implementing Corporate Search
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Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (6 Items) Information Technology--Lists & Rankings
Source: Network World Now Available, Network World 200, 2002
"Networking's Biggest Companies." This url also contains links to a searchable database and nine charts that include info onn companies adding employees fastest, fastest growing (revenue), most profitable, etc. A popular vendor to libraries and information centers, divine, was named the "fastest growing" company.
-- Electronic Commerce--International
Source: GAO International Electronic Commerce: Definitions and Policy Implications
This 100 page (.pdf) report includes many tables and charts, for example:
*Table, Definitions of E-Commerce from Several Organizations
*Table, U.S. Laws Governing Privacy of Personal Information
*Chart, Electronic Commerce as a Percentage of Total Retail Sales, 2000: An International Perspective.
-- Energy--International--Statistics
Source: EIA Full-Text Report, International Energy Outlook 2002 See Also: The World Energy Projection System
-- Population--United States--Lists & Rankings
Source: U.S. Census Fastest Growing Counties in the U.S. (New Population Estimates) Summary and Top 10 List ||| Direct to Related Reports and Lists
-- Newspapers--United States--Directory--Wireless
Source: Newspaper Association of America New Directory, Newspapers Everywhere
From the site, "... find local news wirelessly. The Local News Gateway shows all the wireless sites available from newspapers and gives you the right links for the device you�re using."
- Mentoring
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education Full-Text Available Online, Critical Perspectives on Mentoring: Trends and Issues
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