Technology Review reports on progress in Named Entity extraction research that will make search engines more powerful and closer to answering questions. What is really interesting is that search engines started with only ‘string matching’ or key words but are…
Search: Progress in NE extraction
Social Search
Search is considered an individual’s activity on Internet. But that may change sometime soon in near future. A NYT article describes a project at Microsoft that may change this. This project is lead by Dr. Meredith Rigel Morris. “Web search…
Contenxt Search
Search has used content for quite some time — in pure text, databases, and multimedia. Lately application of context has started receiving increasing attention. The real progress could be made if we really combine content and context. Approaches should be…
On efficacy and distraction of tags
During my trip to ICASSP for participating on a panel related to the future directions of Internet, I had discussions with panelists (from Yahoo, Google, and Micrsoft) and also had a chance to discuss with some other researchers abot the…
Steering Wheel and Search as a conversation
I had a chance to hear a presentation by John Battelle at Fast Forward on the last Thu, Feb 8 in San Diego. He argued that we need a steering wheel for search (Thanks, John for continuing to talk about…