Re: Does natural language skill translate to programming skill?

Aidan Kehoe wrote:

I’m happy to say Google does natural language processing, yes. Cf. the big
different in results between these two queries:

http://www.google.de/search?q=bart&hl=de
http://www.google.ca/search?q=bart&hl=en

I see. The natural language processing of google is the reason for a Flemish site in the search result;-)

http://www.google.ca/search?q=bart&hl=en
----quote----
Netlash - Webdesign | Grafisch Ontwerp
Openminds eerste Belgische OpenID provider werd geschreven door Bart op .... KMO-IT Dag werd geschreven door Bart op 27-02-2007 (10 dagen geleden) - Reageer ...
www.netlash.com/ - 17k - 9 Mar 2007 - Cached - Similar pages
----end----


I’m not sure why one would question it without heavy personal investment in
pre-AI-winter-based approaches to NLP.

Google tries to guess the main language of a page (and fails often). Thats all. No magic.

Where can I buy this technology, or some development of it? Or did it turn
out to be unmarketable, since there was such a strictly limited subset of
German understood by it that phrasing the cases was not any easier than
formulating SQL queries?

The cases can be entered in natural language.

Helmut Wollmersdorfer
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Automating Searches
    ... its for a once off educational project. ... There is a set number of queries, ... Google is being "ripped off" iff you do something like: ... Firefox with manually-typed queries ...
    (comp.lang.java.programmer)
  • Re: Automating Searches
    ... There is a set number of queries, ... Google is being "ripped off" iff you do something like: ... Then we have Firefox with a MRU for queries; ... using the search engine proper, though the SEO will impact the latter ...
    (comp.lang.java.programmer)
  • Re: quotation marks in text fields
    ... Delimiter problems should not depend on the OS being used ... ... > Switch to using saved parameter queries and never worry about delimiters ... Just Google for posts by me containing those words for details. ...
    (microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.db)
  • Re: building a meta search engine
    ... I am building a web application, which involves submitting search ... license from Google which will give you something like 1000 queries per day. ... "Please do not write to Google to request permission to "meta-search" Google for a research project, as such requests will not be granted." ...
    (comp.lang.java.help)