putting Search theory to work on large datasets
Anyone seeking to pull meaning and insight from large datasets suffers from the current primitive state of search tools. Users develop search strategies that have to be painstakingly constructed using complex logic, and are difficult to maintain or reuse, especially across multiple data sources. They are also highly error prone. And yet continuous, consistent application of rigorous search is necessary to keep up with new materials. "Advanced" search interfaces are notoriously counter-intuitive and difficult to learn, and rigidly procedural. One wrong step and the whole query can go wrong. Spotting errors can be very hard.
In this session, Tony Russell-Rose will describe how the search interfaces for such problems can be simplified and made more intuitive, and he will demonstrate a "visual search" technique using a canvas to build and test complex search queries in a two dimensional frame, and which can be applied to major search engines such as Google and Bing, or content sources such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Github, to deliver highly precise and relevant results, in a repeatable, consistent, and easy-to-maintain way.
In this session, Tony Russell-Rose will describe how the search interfaces for such problems can be simplified and made more intuitive, and he will demonstrate a "visual search" technique using a canvas to build and test complex search queries in a two dimensional frame, and which can be applied to major search engines such as Google and Bing, or content sources such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Github, to deliver highly precise and relevant results, in a repeatable, consistent, and easy-to-maintain way.
Tony Russell-Rose
Dr Tony Russell-Rose works at the interface between technical search theory and user experience in navigating complex information environments. He is co-author with Tyler Tate of Designing the Search Experience: the Information Architecture of Discovery (Morgan Kaufman 2013) a classic text that grounds the search user experience design in how people actually go about information seeking, and how they navigate and make sense of information environments. Tony has over 20 years of experience in this domain, including as Manager of User Experience at search company Endeca, technical lead at Reuters, specialising in advanced user interfaces for information access and search and as R&D group manager at Canon Research Centre Europe, where he led a team developing next generation information access products and services. Tony is currently Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Director of UXLabs, a research and design consultancy specialising in complex search and information access applications. Most recently he is founder of 2Dsearch, a start-up applying AI, natural language processing and data visualisation to create the next generation of professional search tools, with special focus on serving the needs of specialists such as legal researchers, patent searchers and professionals working in media monitoring and recruitment/sourcing. In this context his focus is on applying search theory to extract value out of large and diverse structured data collections, as well as structured content collections such as research databases, legal and economic databases and recruitment datasets. Tony has served as vice-chair of the BCS Information Retrieval group and as chair of the CIEHF Human-Computer Interaction group. He is Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Interactive Systems Research, City University, London, and also holds the position of Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor of Cognitive Computing and AI at Essex University. |
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Friday 24 July, 2020, 3.30pm-5.00pm (Singapore time).
This was a virtual session using Zoom conferencing. As we follow strict security protocols, only participants who are registered in advance, using the form below, will be admitted to the session. Case Discussion | Networking | Panel | Site Visit | Talk & Discussion | Workshop * Knowledge and information managers, IT professionals, search managers, corporate librarians, legal librarians, researchers. This was a free event. |
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