Yes, I think this is primarily the content: Freebase is a knowledge base of
entities. Google purchased its parent company Metaweb (which Danny Hillis of
connection machine fame founded). Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/. This was
an ontology and knowledge base: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase. (01)
Along the same lines, one might also look at Yago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAGO_%28database%29. And the SUMO-YAGO
integration: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~gdemelo/yagosumo.html. (02)
Thanks,
Leo (03)
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Refresh [semantic search] (04)
A while back, Google purchased freebase.com, which gave them a topic
map-like platform on which to grow their "semantic" search. (05)
Jack (06)
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Mike Pool <mikepool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I interpreted the article to mean that they're planning an expansion of the
> kind of query answering they're already doing. For example, if one queries
> "Danny Devito height" or "Abe Lincoln birthday" or "5 kilometers to miles"
> today Google provides an answer to the implicit query above the keyword
> search results. This is based on recognizing and extracting propositions
> from existing webpages in the first two cases. I think they're calling it
> "semantic" simply because the query interpretation requires the recognition
> of the entities and associated attributes and properties rather than just a
> keyword lookup.
>
> Google Squared, before it was shut down, had been displaying what appeared
> to me to be an even more impressive exploitation of "semantic search"
> capabilities (before they closed it down). For example, a query on "tallest
> roller coaster in the US" might return a table listing actual instances of
> roller coasters along with each ride's location and height, etc. Google
> Squared results suggested they were doing some subtype and instantiation
> reasoning.
>
> best,
>
> Mike Pool
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:10 PM, David Eddy <deddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Leo -
>>
>> On Apr 2, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Obrst, Leo J. wrote:
>>
>> FYI. Google to begin using semantic search:
>>
>>
>> Any guesses what Google means by "semantic"?
>>
>> That WSJ piece wasn't much more than a Watson-like press release. A lot
>> of vigorous hand waving. One wonders what-if anything-is actually behind
>> the curtain.
>>
>> Reminds me of the 1954 Madison Ave "demo" for MT.
>>
>>
>> Phrases like: ""semantic search," which refers to the process of
>> understanding the actual meaning of words." set off all my alarms.
>>
>> ___________________
>> David Eddy
>> deddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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