Hello! Professor and my fellow classmates! I have finished my blog for the project and below is the website.
http://dennislointernetlinguisticslehman.blogspot.com/
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Final Presentation - Netiquette
Hi guys!
For my presentation on Netiquette, I've created a site on WordPress. If you'd like to follow the presentation on your own portable devices, you can click here.
For my presentation on Netiquette, I've created a site on WordPress. If you'd like to follow the presentation on your own portable devices, you can click here.
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Search Engines and Ambiguity
I do not know about you, but I have been a victim of search engine ambiguity. I have searched for certain things online and at times the results came up of something completely out of topic. Search engines tend to come up with results that are most popular searches, or with the most "hits". For example, if you search the word "twister", what comes up first is the 1999 movie and then the game! How would the search engine know what I am trying to search? The possibilities could be endless.
In the article "How Search Engines Might Interpret Ambiguous Queries Through Entity Tags" by Slawski states that whether you use a small amount of words or too many words when searching can be a problem for the engine to find the best results based on what you are trying to look for. He goes on to say that for the engine to understand best your "query" would be to be as specific as possible--I'm paraphrasing. For example, speech/language in general is ambiguous as we may have learned in several Linguistics and Speech courses. It is understandable, that a computer can misinterpret your "query" because words and phrases can mean so many things.
The solution to ambiguity? dis-am-big-uaty/ish? You know what I mean!
The more specific you are, the better your results would be (hopefully). The search engines uses these things called "tags" to try and identify your search. I have had experience using "tags" on Etsy.com where people buy and sell hand made products. I use to own a shop at Etsy and in order to get more views/results for your products, you would have to put as many tags as possible so that people will easily find your product. For example, If you are trying to sell a painting you would use tags that would describe your painting in any way shape or form. The purpose behind "tagging" or "tags" is to identify your query with as many things possible that might relate to it.
"Our Pattern-detecting Brain"
LLast, Lee writes in his article "SEO Ambiguity & Pattern Recognotion" that our brains searches for patterns, this is called "Paternicity". Consequently, Lee writes that our brains are hard wired for this and because of this we are prone to errors. There two types of errors he mentions, Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 error is when our brain believes patterns that aren't really there and type 2 is when our brains do not believe patterns, when the are truly there. So how does that relate to technology today? Well, technology has "tremendous advances toward algorithms that use pattern recognition effectively". In other words, technology is wired to detect patterns more effectively than our brains are wired to do. Therefore, it responds to ambiguous situations better than out brains. That is my understanding. Have any thoughts, experiences or understanding on thee topics?
In the article "How Search Engines Might Interpret Ambiguous Queries Through Entity Tags" by Slawski states that whether you use a small amount of words or too many words when searching can be a problem for the engine to find the best results based on what you are trying to look for. He goes on to say that for the engine to understand best your "query" would be to be as specific as possible--I'm paraphrasing. For example, speech/language in general is ambiguous as we may have learned in several Linguistics and Speech courses. It is understandable, that a computer can misinterpret your "query" because words and phrases can mean so many things.
The solution to ambiguity? dis-am-big-uaty/ish? You know what I mean!
The more specific you are, the better your results would be (hopefully). The search engines uses these things called "tags" to try and identify your search. I have had experience using "tags" on Etsy.com where people buy and sell hand made products. I use to own a shop at Etsy and in order to get more views/results for your products, you would have to put as many tags as possible so that people will easily find your product. For example, If you are trying to sell a painting you would use tags that would describe your painting in any way shape or form. The purpose behind "tagging" or "tags" is to identify your query with as many things possible that might relate to it.
"Our Pattern-detecting Brain"
LLast, Lee writes in his article "SEO Ambiguity & Pattern Recognotion" that our brains searches for patterns, this is called "Paternicity". Consequently, Lee writes that our brains are hard wired for this and because of this we are prone to errors. There two types of errors he mentions, Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 error is when our brain believes patterns that aren't really there and type 2 is when our brains do not believe patterns, when the are truly there. So how does that relate to technology today? Well, technology has "tremendous advances toward algorithms that use pattern recognition effectively". In other words, technology is wired to detect patterns more effectively than our brains are wired to do. Therefore, it responds to ambiguous situations better than out brains. That is my understanding. Have any thoughts, experiences or understanding on thee topics?
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