tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post7983351905160119084..comments2024-03-18T02:14:57.204-07:00Comments on Google Operating System: Powerset, Natural Language Search EngineAlex Chituhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02618542750965508582noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-16455919269961271382007-07-29T02:59:00.000-07:002007-07-29T02:59:00.000-07:00You should take a look at www.linguisticagents.com...You should take a look at www.linguisticagents.com. It�s a start-up company that has developed a natural language understanding technology that will be used in many applications in addition to search. This technology uses a deep parsing algorithm that is based on nano-syntax technology.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02604893853806417615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-50132796621925452212007-02-09T14:26:00.000-08:002007-02-09T14:26:00.000-08:00I think NL may have some application in the search...I think NL may have some application in the search box, but limited. It's always going to be the specific keywords that fundamentally determine which pages are returned.<BR/><BR/>NL could be helpful in determining the general grammatical form of the search query (e.g. posed as a question), though Google already sort of does this anyway.<BR/><BR/>Even where comprehending the grammar might disambiguate an otherwise ambiguous associated search term, statistical/AI methods will likely account for such disambiguations anyway via word order and proximity.<BR/><BR/>Also, look where Google is going with machine translation. By using statistical models rather than handcoded grammars, they essentially ARE building an accurate grammar of the materials used in training the system. It IS NL processing, of a sort - just not handbuilt. And Google's approach has already beaten the older, handbuilt translation engines out there.<BR/><BR/>Where NL will really find an application in search, I think, is when Google gets to automatically translating foreign-language sites such that they are both searched and displayed in the querier's chosen language. Here, differences in meaning implied by grammatical structures will need to be considered both over the submitted search query, and within the index itself. Though again, a comprehensive statistical approach is still going to win over a handbuilt approach.joelpthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01590272103564105944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-42483808021838331522007-02-09T08:58:00.000-08:002007-02-09T08:58:00.000-08:00I am really interested in natural language (NL) co...I am really interested in natural language (NL) computing, but am not really convinced by the relevance of a NL based search engine.<BR/><BR/>In so far as people have been used to searching the Net with keywords, it may be difficult to talk them into searching with NL. If they cannot find any relevant information with NL query, they will turn back to keyword based queries.<BR/>We have adapted our minds to think with keywords, we are using more and more tags to sort and access information; I am not convinced the NL->keyword preprocessing will be efficient, at least more efficient than keyword input.<BR/><BR/>NL is technically beautiful, but as long as we keep inputting data with keyboards, we incounsciously sort data and assign keywords to what we have in mind prior to giving it to computer system. However, if we imagine a search engine with vocal recognition input, then NL preprocessing cannot be bypassed.<BR/><BR/>Maybe keywords are rather adapted to written input and NL to oral input?Xavierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15075634592367562830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-11442064408013851412007-02-09T06:02:00.000-08:002007-02-09T06:02:00.000-08:00"search is in its infancy" - well, look at google...."search is in its infancy" - well, look at google. what have they done after the page rank thing? there are many bugs in it - cross-site-linking, google bombs... dah! google only deals with additional services, search is in the 2nd place.Radoslavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04744396702986319006noreply@blogger.com