26 Business Professionals in a multinational corporation were asked to assess their search skill prior to undertaking 2 exploratory search goal tasks (not a single right result) using their enterprise search engine. Task #1 could have potentially many results, Task #2 very few. For each task 4 high value documents were hidden in the search... Continue Reading →

I created a vectorspace model using 700 UK license relinquishment reports, comparing companies to risk (x-axis) and uncertainty (y-axis) using word vectors and cosine similarity. Based on patterns in text, those companies in the top right quadrant have a higher 'similarity' to risk and uncertainty; those in the bottom left - the opposite. The companies... Continue Reading →

Word embeddings in Natural Language Processing (NLP) are a representation of words in real valued vectors that encode the meaning of the word. Words closer in vector space are likely to be similar in meaning. From 5,000 reports, the cross plots above shows the word vectors for 1500 minerals to the word vectors for hydrothermal... Continue Reading →