Comments on: Writing a Book on Faceted Search

By: Book Writing vs. Blogging | The Noisy Channel

Book Writing vs. Blogging | The Noisy Channel — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:08:41 +0000

[...] I announced that I’d be writing a book, I promised that I would blog about the experience. It may seem [...]

By: Booking it to the Finish Line | The Noisy Channel

Booking it to the Finish Line | The Noisy Channel — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:17:58 +0000

[...] To my delight–not to mention the delight of my family, colleagues, and publisher–I’m almost done with the book! [...]

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:09:25 +0000

Thanks! I’m committed to submitting the draft by May 1st for official review. But I’d welcome unofficial reviewers and will put out a call for them when I have a draft to share.

By: Ann Guo

Ann Guo — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:04:47 +0000

Can’t wait to read it! If you need a guinea pig to try out some of your chapters, I’d be happy to oblige.

By: Usability Begins At Home | The Noisy Channel

Usability Begins At Home | The Noisy Channel — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:27:32 +0000

[...] muti-faceted identity: I have an awesome day job; I’m a prolific blogger (really?), I’m writing a book; and I have a wonderful family. Of course, it’s easy to forget that all of these facets [...]

By: Dave Fauth

Dave Fauth — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:59:16 +0000

Congratulations. Can’t wait to pick up a copy.

By: Twitter’s “Real-Time Search” Ain’t That Hard | The Noisy Channel

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:24:20 +0000

[...] it is much like an index at the back of a book (remember those relics? don’t forget to buy mine!) that associates each word with a list of the documents (in this case, tweets) in which it [...]

By: Sol Lederman

Sol Lederman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:19:02 +0000

Daniel,

I’m excited to read about your upcoming book. I’ve touched on Endeca in the Federated Search Blog in the past and look forward to reviewing your book for the blog.

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:23:05 +0000

Avi, I know Marti quite well, but I appreciate your making sure of it. And of course I'll write about her Flamenco work, which I've happily featured in a number of presentations (like this one). But there was even earlier work on faceted search by Steve Pollitt at the University of Huddersfield (though he called it view-based searching). You might want to take a look at the faceted search Wikipedia entry.

By: Avi Rappoport

Avi Rappoport — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:09:53 +0000

I really hope you include the pioneering work by Professor Marti Hearst of UC Berkeley. She was the earliest and best proponent of faceted search that I know, and her research gave us all confidence that what *felt* right really *was* right.

She’s at http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/martihearst and you’re welcome to say that I sent you!

Avi

By: Max L. Wilson

Max L. Wilson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:53:24 +0000

and i think all the better for having access to the corporate experience, rather than purely from the academic world.

By: Max L. Wilson

Max L. Wilson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:52:27 +0000

awesome. i’m sure it will be a great book. good job.

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:43:03 +0000

Thanks, guys. It’s intimidating to write something the size of my dissertation when I thought I’d never do that again, but fortunately the requirements are quite different. I’m looking forward to bringing together so much of the research that I’ve been reading over the past decade and distilling it into a readily consumable (but hopefully still meaty) form.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:29:16 +0000

Congratulations — looks like you’re in good company.

By: Maura

Maura — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:57:39 +0000

This is great news! I can’t wait to read it.