The following is a guest post by Jeff Revesz and Elena Haliczer, co-founders of Adaptive Semantics. Adaptive Semantics specializes in sentiment analysis, in particular using machine learning to help automate comment moderation. They’ve been quite successful at the Huffington Post, which is also an investor. Intrigued by their approach, I reached out to them to [...]

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The following is a guest post by Rich Marr. Rich is the Director of Engineering at Pixsta, where he’s been working on Empora.com, a consumer-facing site that enables browsing of fashion products  according to image similarity (much like Modista).  Pixsta is a growing start-up focused on turning our R&D team’s ongoing search and [...]

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After my recent posts about Google’s similarity browsing for images, a colleague reached out to me to educate me about some of the recent advances in image retrieval. This colleague is involved with an image retrieval startup and felt uncomfortable posting comments publicly, so we agreed that I would paraphrase them in a post under [...]

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Guest posts are always a pleasure, but today I’m particularly delight to have AJ Shankar of Modista share his thoughts about visual exploration.
My friend Arlo and I co-founded Modista, a web site that uses computer vision algorithms and a novel user interface to enable product exploration and discovery on the web. The premise is simple: [...]

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This is the first of what I hope to be many guest posts. Our guest blogger is Kelley McGrath, a Cataloging and Metadata Services Librarian at Ball State University Libraries, and at my request she’s supplying a perspective that I feel is crucial for anyone interested in HCIR–that of an actual librarian who deals with [...]

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