Macedonia in Natural Language Search Engines! (ερωτήσεις στο Semantic Web για τη Μακεδονία)
Posted on May 6, 2008 by omadeon
- Greek Version: May be added later. Αν είστε ανυπόμονοι, ίσως αντέξετε προσωρινά τα… σπαστά Ελληνικά του Google Translation, ΕΔΩ)
Today I started writing this blog-post after testing Powerset, using human questions about Macedonia (a well-known SEMANTIC dispute between Greece and another Balkan state). After all, the infamous “naming dispute” between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is -to a large extent- a SEMANTIC DISPUTE.
I am a registered beta-tester of the Powerset Semantic Search Engine (www.powerset.com) , where one can ask human questions and get (more-or-less) human answers, based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) from a Knowledge-Base that uses Wikipedia.
- Semantic search-engines are multiplying faster than rabbits!
Two months ago, a Semantic Web Search Engine Roundup was posted by James Simmons. Among these, Natural language Search Engines are perhaps the best.
This morning, Andreas Blumauer, an Austrian blogger working for a Semantic Web Company in Vienna, published a post titled “Natural language search - a new breakthrough?”. After reading Andreas’ post I also tested www.ask.com, another natural language search engine, open to anyone, not just beta-testers. Here are the questions and some of the results:
Question 1: What is Macedonia?
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Answers:
- (answers were collected here: http://omadeon.com/nlp/macedonia.html)