January 30, 2007

A great new (to me) phrase – “Adversarial Information Retrieval”

I’ve just discovered a great new phrase – adversarial information retrieval. It’s not really new, since papers are now being accepted for what will be the third annual conference on the subject. But it seems to have gained currency over the past few months.

I think this area is really where the bulk of the research into public search engine algorithm goes. And that’s another way of saying that web and enterprise search are very different things.

Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • Digg
  • DZone
  • Mixx
  • Reddit
  • Slashdot
  • Sphinn
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati

Comments

One Response to “A great new (to me) phrase – “Adversarial Information Retrieval””

  1. Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Enterprise search versus web search on January 14th, 2008 3:00 pm

    [...] search has a huge problem that enterprise search doesn’t — adversarial information retrieval. Enterprise document creators generally don’t try to game search [...]

Leave a Reply




Feed including blog about text analytics, text mining, and text search Subscribe to the Monash Research feed via RSS or email:

Login

Search our blogs and white papers

Monash Research blogs

User consulting

Building a short list? Refining your strategic plan? We can help.

Vendor advisory

We tell vendors what's happening -- and, more important, what they should do about it.

Recent white paper

Pervasive PSQL Summit v10 Highlights

September, 2007

Recent webcast

What leading database vendors don't want you to know

Originally broadcast April 9, 2008

Monash Research highlights

Learn about white papers, webcasts, and blog highlights, by RSS or email.