You're right. I didn't take time to check out if msn could answer questions. Do you have any tips for how I might be able to deleted a couple of postings to slashdot?;-)
Where are your links? Tried to click on your nickname, and all I can see is a list of the postings you have made. Have you tried to ask google, start and msn for the population of a country?
Perhaps it's because I'm Norwegian.:-)
If you try to type in a question in googles search form, like "what's the population of Denmark?", you will get the correct answer instead of a list of pages containing just the words you typed in. MSN don't give you answers to questions like that, but www.start.com/3 does!
Eric Brill at Microsoft Research has published an academic paper which describes how their experimental question answering system AskMSR works.
Excuse me for my wildly unclear English.
It can give answer to questions like "what is the population of norway". MSN doesn't have any artificial intelligence. You can read Eric Brills paper about AskMSR question answering system for more info about how it's done.
The START Natural Language Question Ansering System has not won any Loebner prize, but it actually gives you real answers: http://start.csail.mit.edu/
Try ask things like "Who composed the opera Tosca?" or "what is the weather like in Oslo?". It gives you an idea of how the future will be like when several datasources are merged in to one big knowledgebase.
With the semantic web, merging of knowledge can be done more or less automatically.
TopicMaps Query Language - yet another alternative
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Yeat another alternative to SQL is the TopicMap QueryLanguage (TMQL). Topicmaps is a general format for databases, much like RDF and OWL. There is some work in progress on the forthcoming iso standard TopicMaps Query Language. The drafts suggests a hybrid between prolog/datalog and sql.
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You're right. I didn't take time to check out if msn could answer questions. Do you have any tips for how I might be able to deleted a couple of postings to slashdot? ;-)
Where are your links? Tried to click on your nickname, and all I can see is a list of the postings you have made. Have you tried to ask google, start and msn for the population of a country?
Perhaps it's because I'm Norwegian. :-)
If you try to type in a question in googles search form, like "what's the population of Denmark?", you will get the correct answer instead of a list of pages containing just the words you typed in. MSN don't give you answers to questions like that, but www.start.com/3 does!
Eric Brill at Microsoft Research has published an academic paper which describes how their experimental question answering system AskMSR works.
Excuse me for my wildly unclear English.
It can give answer to questions like "what is the population of norway". MSN doesn't have any artificial intelligence. You can read Eric Brills paper about AskMSR question answering system for more info about how it's done.
The START Natural Language Question Ansering System has not won any Loebner prize, but it actually gives you real answers: http://start.csail.mit.edu/ Try ask things like "Who composed the opera Tosca?" or "what is the weather like in Oslo?". It gives you an idea of how the future will be like when several datasources are merged in to one big knowledgebase. With the semantic web, merging of knowledge can be done more or less automatically.
Yeat another alternative to SQL is the TopicMap QueryLanguage (TMQL). Topicmaps is a general format for databases, much like RDF and OWL. There is some work in progress on the forthcoming iso standard TopicMaps Query Language. The drafts suggests a hybrid between prolog/datalog and sql.