New Search Challenges and Opportunities.

The author discusses the technique of open information extraction that is based on a technology that analyzes natural language text and attempts to glean information about the relationships between words. Oren Etzioni, a computer science professor, is studying open information extraction as a techni...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 27 - 29
Main Author:	Savage, Neil
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jan2010
Subjects:	Search engine programming Natural language processing Etzioni, Oren Information storage & retrieval systems Social media QUERY (Information retrieval system)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The author discusses the technique of open information extraction that is based on a technology that analyzes natural language text and attempts to glean information about the relationships between words. Oren Etzioni, a computer science professor, is studying open information extraction as a technique to allow search engine technology to more quickly automate the work of sifting through web pages. The article discusses the challenges for search engines posed by online social media including blogs, Twitter feeds and Facebook status updates.