Google Scribe: Now with automatic text for links and faster formatting options

Posted by Kartik Singh and Kuntal Loya, Google Scribe teamSince Google Scribe's first release on Google Labs last year, we have been poring over your feedback and busy adding the top features you asked for. Today, we're excited to announce a new version of Google Scribe that brings more features to word processing.Besides formatting, Google Scribe provides features that help you author high quality documents quickly:Automatic text for linksAdding...

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Google at ACL 2011

Posted by Ryan McDonald and Fernando Pereira, Research TeamThe Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics is one of the premier conferences for language and text technologies. Many employees at Google have strong roots in the community of researchers that attend this meeting, including many of our researchers working on machine translation and speech.At this years conference, Google is particularly well represented. The General Chair is Dekang Lin and a few Googlers are serving as technical Area Chairs (in addition to the plethora...

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Make beautiful interactive maps even faster with new additions to the Fusion Tables API

Posted by Rebecca Shapley, Jayant Madhavan, Rod McChesney, and Kathryn Hurley, Fusion Tables teamGoogle Fusion Tables is a modern data management and publishing web application that makes it easy to host, manage, collaborate on, visualize, and publish data tables online. Since we first launched Fusion Tables almost two years ago, we've seen tremendous interest and usage from dozens of areas, from journalists to scientists to open-data entrepreneurs,...

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Google at CHI 2011

Posted by Yang Li, Research ScientistCross-posted with the Technical Programs and Events Blog Google has an increasing presence at ACM CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, which is the premiere conference for Human Computer Interaction research. Eight Google papers will appear at the conference. These papers not only touch on our core areas such as Search, Chrome and Android but also demonstrate our growing effort in new areas where HCI is essential, such as new search user interfaces, gesture-based interfaces and cross-device...

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