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Research on enterprise AI August 2023
.It may have been August but there was no noticeable diminution of the rate of publication of research papers on arXiv relating to the enterprise applications of AI, with a particular focus on search applications. This is far from a comprehensive listing and is...
The information discovery challenges of PowerPoint files
I must start by pleading guilty. I have over 700 PowerPoint files dating back over a decade. A significant number of them are work-in-progress versions and in most cases the file name is the conference title and not the subject of the presentation. This collection...
Search Solutions 2023 – 22 November 2023
The annual BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) Search Solutions 2023 event will take place in London on 22 November. This is the only conference in the world that sets out to bring together academic and practitioner perspectives on information discovery....
Research on enterprise AI July 2023
The rate of publication of research papers on the enterprise adoption and impact of AI continues unabated. The patterns if research publication are the subject of a very timely paper In this month's collection - a good place to start your journey through a month of...
Research on enterprise AI – June 2023
Every day I scan through around 200-300 additions to the arXiv preprint database looking for research that has implications for the assessment, adoption and governance of AI in the enterprise. I skip over technical developments on LLMs and research into the...
Who benchmarks the AI application benchmarks?
The information retrieval community was one of the pioneers in the development of benchmarks and test collections. The Cranfield experiments were the result of the vision and patience of Cyril Cleverdon, and can trace their history back to 1958. The baton was taken up...
Coping (only just!) with the deluge of AI/search-related research
One of my objectives in setting up SearchResearch Online was to bring to the attention of the search management community (primarily enterprise/professional search) research that had been published that would be of relevance to their work. I launched the web site in...
AIGC integration into the business – assessing costs, prices, values and ‘productivity’
Over the last few months probably millions of words have been written about the impact of ChatGPT and other AIGC applications are going to have on the way we work. Every conceivable issue has been considered and argued over except one……Read on. When Google started up...
Understanding Search Engines – Dirk Lewandowski
It is remarkable that this book is unique in its coverage of the development of the technology, business and impact of web search. The web search engines play such an important role in our lives and our business activities that we take them for granted. It’s not just...
Tracking LLM and AIGC research – the role of pre-print servers
The opportunities for research into the performance and possibilities of LLMs (I’m using this in a very generic way) are both colossal and essential if we are to get the best from this technology and avoid the worst it has to offer. It has struck me that the...
AIGC and ‘search’ – more questions than answers
I’ve not blogged for several weeks, a combination of completing the text of my forthcoming book on workarounds and watching for the inevitable arrival of multiple AI-Generated Content (AIGC) applications. There was no way that OpenAI was going to dominate the market....
Assessing ‘AI-based’ enterprise search solutions Part 2 Entity extraction
Inside the enterprise there is a substantial world of corporate language that is challenging both to index and query. An element of this language is alphanumeric strings such as ER-OS-36X as the internal designation of a product, but I’ll come back to these in a...