'Question Answering' Category
Google’s initiatives in Artificial Intelligence
Introduction
Google’s earnings nearly doubled last year.
http://news.com.com/Google+profit+nearly+doubles/2100-1030_3-6127658.html
Unlike Microsoft that gets its money from shifting boxes Google relies on advertising to pay its way. There is a tremendous incentive to improve the quality of searching. The first reason is obvious. The better Google is perceived to perform as a search engine, the more people will use Google [...]Guest Contributor wanted for next 3 weeks
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POTW 3/19/07: Discussion of “An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System”
Better late than never is what they say… I’ve been absolutely slammed this week trying to get out a proposal and finish up my slides for ApacheCon Europe. So, here goes on the POTW for this week. If you recall, we are reading “An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System” by Brill, [...]
POTW 3/19/07: “An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System” by Brill, et. al.
Paper of the Week for March 19, 2007 is “An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System” by Bill, Dumais and Banko. Let’s have a look at how Microsoft does QA, shall we?
POTW 3/11/07: Discussion of “COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering”
This week we are digging deeper into the published work of Language Computer Corporation’s QA (they have an online demo on their home page) system by looking at COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering by Moldovan, Clark, Harabagiu and Maiorano. If you recall from a few weeks ago, the LCC system was the top [...]