tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916168470376937425.post7199193480372039479..comments2024-03-06T06:27:15.764-08:00Comments on Earning My Turns: Zellig Harris, natural language processing, and searchFernando Pereirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849361902113771573noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916168470376937425.post-1603464029059972632007-10-18T09:42:00.000-07:002007-10-18T09:42:00.000-07:00It could be the case that because of this differen...It could be the case that because of this difference between technical sublanguages and general languages we still do not see any NLP-based search engines functionning over a domain-independent collection of data.<BR/>Some time ago I've found <A HREF="http://news.ontos.com" REL="nofollow">a nice engine by Ontos</A> based on the natural language analysis suggesting not searching but a kind of focusing on an item you are looking for. These guys collect various news and offer a wide range of connections between the item you are interested in and other named entities. They have a rather fine-grained system: e.g., they try to dismbiguate entities using specific rules involoving conflict-resolving algorithms, and the metrics of their NLP seem to be high.<BR/>Still they are constrained by their specific domain, but I am pretty sure that there may be a nice clasterization of queries that could constitute a meta-model for such systems.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17897153848687824965noreply@blogger.com