Knowledge-based Information Retrieval with Wikipedia.

Google Tech Talks
October 31, 2008
ABSTRACT
In knowledge-based information retrieval, search engines consult external sources of knowledge ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, glossaries, gazeteers to help process the documents they encounter and the requests they receive. The idea is old, obvious, and compelling but results have been singularly unimpressive. The best performing and most widely used search systems are [...]

Knowledge-based Information Retrieval with Wikipedia.

Google Tech Talks
October 31, 2008
ABSTRACT
In knowledge-based information retrieval, search engines consult external sources of knowledge ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, glossaries, gazeteers to help process the documents they encounter and the requests they receive. The idea is old, obvious, and compelling but results have been singularly unimpressive. The best performing and most widely used search systems are [...]

The Web That Wasn’t

Google Tech Talks
October, 23 2007
ABSTRACT
For most of us who work on the Internet, the Web is all we have ever really known. It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without browsers, URLs and HTTP. But in the years leading up to Tim Berners-Lee’s world-changing invention, a few visionary information scientists were exploring alternative systems that [...]

The Web That Wasn’t

Google Tech Talks
October, 23 2007
ABSTRACT
For most of us who work on the Internet, the Web is all we have ever really known. It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without browsers, URLs and HTTP. But in the years leading up to Tim Berners-Lee’s world-changing invention, a few visionary information scientists were exploring alternative systems that [...]

Making the Semantic Web Accessible to the Casual User

Google Tech Talks
June, 26 2008
ABSTRACT
The Semantic Web presents the vision of a distributed, dynamically growing knowledge base founded on formal logic. Common users, however, seem to have problems even with the simplest Boolean
expression. So how can we help users to query a web of logic that they do not seem to understand? One [...]

Making the Semantic Web Accessible to the Casual User

Google Tech Talks
June, 26 2008
ABSTRACT
The Semantic Web presents the vision of a distributed, dynamically growing knowledge base founded on formal logic. Common users, however, seem to have problems even with the simplest Boolean
expression. So how can we help users to query a web of logic that they do not seem to understand? One [...]

Emacs Org-mode – a system for note-taking and project planning

Google Tech Talks
July 15, 2008
ABSTRACT
Org-mode is a large Emacs sub-systems that has been integrated into
Emacs with the version 22.1 release. From it original intend,
Org-mode is a system for structured note-taking and project planning.
It uses strictly plain text files, making it a truly portable,
system-independent solution. The project-planning features are
implemented using [...]