pavka http://www.pavka.com.au About pavka (the company) and Pavel Kalinov (the legend). Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:33:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Towards Real Intelligent Web Exploration A significant problem of the dominant web search model is the lack of a realistic way to acquire user search context. Search engines use implicit feedback, which is extremely sparse and does not allow users to properly define what they… Read all

]]> http://www.pavka.com.au/pages/203.html Complaint sent to the Australian Human Rights Commission The Federal Government has announced it will withdraw tax benefits from families whose children are not immunised (news: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-25/immunise-or-lose-benefits-parents-told/3694236).

Immunisation is a (very invasive) medical procedure and as such requires informed consent by the patient. My son being less than… Read all

]]> http://www.pavka.com.au/pages/191.html My data is *my* data! Starting to get pissed off with how everyone just assumes it’s entirely OK to follow me around the web to see what I’m doing, what I’m searching for, who I talk to etc.

Last year my university email account was… Read all

]]> http://www.pavka.com.au/pages/170.html Immunisation Data for Australia: Freedom of Information? I recently sent a letter to Medicare Australia asking a simple question about the effectiveness of child immunisation, which I assumed would get an informative answer thanks to the Freedom of Information Act. However, I got a formal reply which… Read all

]]> http://www.pavka.com.au/pages/160.html Towards Real Intelligent Web Exploration A significant problem of the dominant web search model is the lack of a realistic way to acquire user search context. Search engines use implicit feedback, which is extremely sparse and does not allow users to properly define what they… Read all

]]> http://www.pavka.com.au/pages/135.html Photo Gallery View The Canada, Toronto / Канада, Торонто Album

Canada, Toronto / Канада, Торонто

Visit to Toronto, August 30 - September 4, 2010 Пътуване до Торонто, 30 август - 4 септември 2010

]]> http://www.pavka.com.au/pages/62.html Let’s Trust Users – It Is Their Search The current search engine model considers users not trustworthy, so no tools are provided to let them specify what they are looking for or in what context, which severely limits what they are able to achieve. Instead, search engines try… Read all

]]> http://www.pavka.com.au/pages/53.html Building a Dynamic Classifier for Large Text Data Collections Due to the lack of in-built tools to navigate the web, people have to use external solutions to find information. The most popular of these are search engines and web directories. Search engines allow users to locate specific information about… Read all

]]> http://www.pavka.com.au/pages/47.html Welcome to my site! Welcome to pavka.com.au!

This is both the personal site of Pavel Kalinov, and the company site for his web development company pavka, registered in Australia.

You will find personal information here, as well as some info on projects of the… Read all

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