![]()
Visiting guest. Why not sign in?
|
|
Reply to Message
Not registered yet?
The AI Depot has a focused community of friendly users. Rather than let anyone abuse the site at the brink of promiscuity, we prefer to let only those with an active interest participate... this simply requires registering.
Why not sign up!
Joining the site's community is completely free. You can then post messages freely, and customise your personal profile at will. Specific privileges will also be granted to you, like being able to access printer-friendly articles without restrictions. So, why not register?
Parent Message
IBM Tackles Web-Mining
CNN.com has a new feature: Ask Jeeves Seeks to Solve Search Query. When one of the biggest IT companies - with a reputation of steel, who's just registered more patents in 2001 than anyone else, and who pioneered the popular 'link' technology used by Google - tackles the market of web data-mining, existing search engines can start to sweat. They're going to unveil some new technology about this next month, aiming to mine the net in a scalable and efficient fashion. If ever combined with a quality search mechanism, this could revolutionise the SE market. Also, AskJeeves licensed Tehoma's technology last year, which aims to understand web pages 'better' than current search engines. They use context dependent parsing (which allows them to understand the scope of the any given text), and dynamic topic clustering (for searches that match your query better). One problem, however, is that Tehoma has not yet shown the ability to scale-up like Google, handling over 2 billion documents... this is a great limiting factor. Let's hope AskJeeve's question matching technology also takes a step up: there's a lot to be improved upon from a Natural Language Processing point of view! |
|
Back to the Artificial Intelligence Depot.