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Offline Sidoh

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« on: December 14, 2006, 12:40:03 am »
This is a really neat development, I thought.  It's not really designed to compete with anything like Google, but the University of Washington is attempting to explore the "next generation of search engines."  There are still a few anomalous entries that don't really make sense, but it's fun to play around with!

For example, you could fill in the fields:

 Arg1 -- Einstein
 Predicate -- Born

and it would return a list of tuples that it thinks describes your specifications.

There was a lecture on this on TV today, which is where I heard about it.  I'm not sure how famous it is, but I found some of the details pretty interesting.  For example, it is a "self-sufficient" application.  It learns on its own.  It decides what to learn and how to learn it.  That's obviously a huge understatement of what it is actually doing, but none of these aspects were covered in much detail.

Anyway, I thought I'd share.

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Re: TextRunner
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2006, 12:44:49 am »
how does this differ from modern day search engines?

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Re: TextRunner
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2006, 12:51:14 am »