Author: Xuan Jin

I totally forgot how crazy everything is with my family, how stubborn my grandparents are, and how much my mom loves to talk. Being really far away from my …

I found the context of personalize search really interesting. From the user’s standpoint, it is definitely helping the user out without any doubt. with …

In the slides, it seems like the definition of the Link Analysis is following “Used for crawling, ranking, computing the geographic scope of a web page, …

For leading longer queries, I know we didn’t go deep in this concept, but when doing the search, should all words to be matched? I also don’t …

I am still not sure if I understand normalized DCG, I understand that it is better normalized compare to fixed range value. However, I don’t think I …

I am still not understanding the following concept, how would you decide what constant you need to add though, I guess that’s depending on the words? Also …

The language model idea is still not really clear to me. When user is searching in the doc, they would use something like a sql query to search within …

I am still confused on the distance, my understanding is the distance is used to determine the relavence, right? I am confused on why using the angle would …

When constructing a B-tree in order to improve the efficiency of search, my understanding is to have the index constructed in a way so that it will be in the …

With the alogirithm mentioned in the reading, I am wondering in order to develop a good information retrival engine, are we combining all of the alogrithm? What …