
NaturalLanguageProcessing Interfaces
- the only one: AskJeeves
no real NLP, but human editors compiled popular queries and answers
- Microsoft Longhorn (AskMSR), REAL NLP:
- natural language questions (like: "Who killed Abraham Lincoln?")
- giving THE answer: "John Wilkes Booth" (first)
- searching own PC first
- finding answers by a rewrite question2answer method:
- -> "... killed Abraham Lincoln" OR "Abraham Lincoln was killed by ..."
- and doing string search on expected answers
- pragmatic & realistic approach - no academic dreams like SW
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(C) W.Sander-Beuermann, University of Hannover, RRZN, SearchEngineLab