Challenges and Progress in Search Relevancy [ 1 ]

Submitted by edward.m.armstrong on Fri, 2016-03-25 19:53 Tuesday, July 19, 2016 19:45 to Friday, July 22, 2016 19:45 Event: 2016 ESIP Summer Meeting [2] Session Type: Breakout [3] Expertise Level: Intermediate [4] Collaboration Area: Discovery [5] Documentation [6] Information Quality [7] Semantic Web [8] Abstract/Agenda: As dataset diversity and data volumes continue to increase, providing users with the interfaces, tools and services they need to discover relevant datasets creates new challenges and opportunities for the improvement of search relevancy and search engine result ranking. Diversity of user communities is a challenge as well, given that relevancy depends on specific user types and needs.