Some practitioners state that users in an enterprise search deployment enter a much smaller number of words in a search query (1.5 average) than on the Internet (3.0 average) and infer it as one of the causes for poor outcomes. This short article presents an argument that this enterprise search user behaviour rather than being... Continue Reading →

Presentation given at the Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Conference in Seattle this week (Geoinformatics session). Click here for Slideshare

Surprised and delighted to be informed that my PhD has been judged in the "Top 5" Internationally in 2017 for Information Science in the ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award. My thesis topic was Re-examining and re-conceptualising enterprise search and discovery. The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) scope includes any PhD related to, “the production,... Continue Reading →

Delighted to have made the front cover for Sep/Oct 2017 issue

I presented at the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO) this week, sharing findings of an exploratory study. A Knowledge Organization System (KOS) was automatically applied to the annual company reports of four similar sized oil and gas companies to detect forward-looking strong and hesitant sentiment, in order to detect rhetoric, social phenomena and predict... Continue Reading →

Just a quick update on what I have been up to these past few hectic months as my last blog post was back in May this year. Below are some papers I have been working on over the summer and upcoming conferences I will be presenting at: Conducted some research recently in California (more on... Continue Reading →

I presented some text analytics work at a recent GeoScienceWorld (GSW) meeting in New Mexico, USA. GSW is a not-for-profit cooperation of Geological Societies, Associations & Institutes to disseminate geoscience information. First, some information on the trip, then the analytics! FIELD TRIP The Geological Field Trip was to Santa Fe and Abiquiu areas approx. 7,000... Continue Reading →

Enterprise search and discovery algorithms are often perceived as objective and neutral helping us overcome our own biases, even if they don’t always produce what we want or need. The Cognitive Computing narrative is one where machines read vast amount of text to compensate for human cognitive bias and potential organizational dogma. The mantra is... Continue Reading →

It is still a work-in-progress, however I have blended more elements of the 'modality model for search' into some of my recent thinking on how search technology artefacts could be used to infer aspects of information and knowledge culture. A focus on search to check for information compliance of various aspects is termed 'HOLD TO... Continue Reading →