Very nice write-up, Trey, my eyes didn't glaze over! :) Cheers,
Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery IRC: debt Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Trey Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Mikhail has written up and should soon release his report on our recent > TextCat A/B tests; the results look good, and language identification and > cross-wiki searching definitely improve the results (in terms of results > shown and results clicked) for otherwise poorly performing queries (those > that get fewer than 3 results). > > Mikhail's report also suggests looking at some measure of confidence for > the language identification to see if that has any effect on the quality > (in terms of number of results, but more importantly clicks) of the > crosswiki (also "interwiki") results. This sounds like a good idea, but > TextCat doesn't make it super easy to do. I have some ideas, though, and I > would love some suggestions from anyone else who has any ideas. > > The details are kind of technical, so if that kind of thing makes your > eyes glaze over, you should avert your gaze now. > > Otherwise, check out my write up on TextCat and confidence > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_and_Confidence> > and share your ideas here, or on the talk page. > > Thanks! > > —Trey > > Trey Jones > Software Engineer, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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