Posted by Eugene Weinstein and Pedro Moreno, Google Speech Team Although we’ve been working on speech recognition for several years, every new language requires our engineers and scientists to tackle unique challenges. Our most recent additions - Croatian, Filipino, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese - required creative solutions to reflect how each language is used across devices and in everyday conversations. For example, since Vietnamese is a tonal language, we had to explore how to take tones into consideration. One simple technique is to model the...
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Posted by Dave Orr, Amar Subramanya, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, and Michael Ringgaard, Google Research“I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.”- PlatoWhen you type in a search query -- perhaps Plato -- are you interested in the string of letters you typed? Or the concept or entity represented by that string? But knowing that the string represents something real and meaningful only gets you so far in computational...
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Posted by Shaun Lysen, Statistician at GoogleOften times people are presented with two choices after making a search on their devices - they could either click on the organic results for their query, or on the ads that appear on the page. Website owners who want to build a strong online presence often wonder how to balance organic search and paid search ads in driving website traffic. But what happens when ads are paused? Would businesses see an increase in organic traffic that could make up for the loss in paid traffic? To answer these questions,...
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Posted by Adam Grunewald, Mobile Marketing ManagerIt’s important for people to stay up to date about the most recent research and insights related to their work or personal lives. But it can be difficult to keep up with all the new studies and updated data that’s out there. To make life a bit easier, we’re introducing a new take on how research can be presented. The Databoard for Research Insights enables people to explore and interact with some of Google’s recent research in a unique and immersive way. The Databoard uses responsive design to...
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Posted by Murray Stokely, Google Storage Analytics TeamThis year marks Google’s eleventh consecutive year as a sponsor of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), just one of the co-located events at USENIX Federated Conference Week (FCW), which combines numerous conferences and workshops covering fields such as Autonomic Computing, Feedback Computing and much more in an intensive week of research, trends, and community interaction. ATC provides a broad forum for computing systems research with an emphasis on implementations and experimental...
Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Posted by Massimiliano Ciaramita, Research Scientist and David Harper, Head University Relations (EMEA)Some of the biggest challenges for the scientific community today involve understanding the principles and mechanisms that underlie natural language use on the Web. An example of long-standing problem is language ambiguity; when somebody types the word “Rio” in a query do they mean the city, a movie, a casino, or something else? Understanding the difference can be crucial to help users get the answer they are looking for. In the past few years,...
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