Posted by Linne Ha, International Program ManagerRead more about the launch of Voice Search in Latin American Spanish on the Google América Latina blog.Today we are excited to announce the launch of Voice Search in Indonesian, Malaysian, and Latin American Spanish, making Voice Search available in over two dozen languages and accents since our first launch in November 2008. This accomplishment could not have been possible without the help of local users in the region - really, we couldn’t have done it without them. Let me explain:In 2010 we launched...
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Posted by Hyunyoung Choi and Paul Liu, Senior EconomistsA few years ago, our in-house economists, Hal Varian and Hyunyoung Choi, demonstrated how to “predict the present” with monthly visitor arrivals to Hong Kong. We took this idea further to see if search queries could predict the future. If users start to research their travel plans some weeks or months in advance, then intuitively shouldn’t we be able to extend "predicting the present" into "predicting the future?" We decided to test it out by focusing on a region whose tourism was recently...
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Posted by Yossi Matias, Senior Director, Head of Israel R&D CenterIn an effort to advance the understanding of market algorithms and Internet economics, Google has launched an academic research initiative focused on the underlying aspects of online auctions, pricing, game-theoretic strategies, and information exchange. Twenty professors from three leading Israeli academic institutions - the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and the Technion - will receive a Google grant to conduct research for three years.In the past two decades, we have...
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Posted by Jason Weston and Samy Bengio, Research TeamIn our paper, we introduce a generic framework to find a joint representation of images and their labels, which can then be used for various tasks, including image ranking and image annotation.We focus on the task of automatic assignment of annotations (text labels) to images given only the pixel representation of the image (i.e., with no known metadata). This is achieved by a learning algorithm, that is, where the computer learns to predict annotations for new images given annotated training...
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Posted by Slav Petrov and Ryan McDonald, Research TeamOne major hurdle in organizing the world’s information is building computer systems that can understand natural, or human, language. Such understanding would advance if systems could automatically determine syntactic and semantic structures.This analysis is an extremely complex inferential process. Consider for example the sentence, "A hearing is scheduled on the issue today." A syntactic parser...
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