Posted by Alfred Spector, Vice President, EngineeringCross-posted with the Official Google BlogOn Wednesday, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced its list of 2013 elected members. We’re proud to congratulate Peter Norvig, director of research, and Arun Majumdar, vice president for energy; two Googlers who are among the new members elected this year. Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is considered one of the nation’s highest honors, with those elected recognized as leaders in the arts, public affairs, business,...
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Thursday, 11 April 2013
50,000 Lessons on How to Read: a Relation Extraction Corpus
Posted on 09:00 by Unknown
Posted by Dave Orr, Product Manager, Google ResearchOne of the most difficult tasks in NLP is called relation extraction. It’s an example of information extraction, one of the goals of natural language understanding. A relation is a semantic connection between (at least) two entities. For instance, you could say that Jim Henson was in a spouse relation with Jane Henson (and in a creator relation with many beloved characters and shows).The goal of relation extraction is to learn relations from unstructured natural language text. The relations can...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Advanced Power Searching with Google: Lessons Learned
Posted on 09:30 by Unknown
Posted by Dan Russell, Uber Tech Lead, Search Quality & User Happiness and Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University RelationsLarge classes are something you normally want to avoid like the plague. So the idea of being in a class with tens of thousands of students seems like a completely crazy idea. But in January, 2013, Google offered a free “MOOC” (a Massive Open Online Course) to teach Advanced Power Searching (APS) to a wide variety of information professionals. The wholly online class ran for two weeks covering advanced...
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