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Google feeds its AI machines steamy romance novels to improve natural language processing

Google feeds its AI machines steamy romance novels to improve natural language processing Over the past couple of years, Google has been implementing a number of AI, or machine-learning technologies, in to its products. Whether it’s intuitive search within the Photos app, better automatic thumbnail creation in YouTube, ‘Smart Reply’ in Inbox, or just straight-out beating an

Using the web as corpus

Translators, terminologists and even Subject matter experts (SMEs) are called upon to define, differentiate and translate terminology on a daily basis. There are many questions that will eventually lead to the A => B translation equivalency (or at least to a prevailing one). All of us can, and usually do, turn to traditional printed dictionaries or dictionaries on CD.

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Τελεστές για μηχανές αναζήτησης

 

Εδώ και αρκετό καιρό ήθελα να γράψω κάτι παραπάνω για τις μεθόδους αναζήτησης στο Google g (άντε και στο Bing μια και πολλοί μού έχετε πει ότι τώρα πια με το θάνατο της Altavista προτιμάτε το Bing). Όμως για πολλούς και διάφορους λόγους ποτέ δεν κατάφερνα να το ξεκινήσω. Τώρα λοιπόν, βρήκα το χρόνο και σας παρουσιάζω ενημερωμένες τις μεθόδους έρευνας σε μηχανές αναζήτησης. Αυτό είναι το πρώτο μέρος μια και στο δεύτερο θα καλύψω τους υπόλοιπους τελεστές.

Google’s Tally Of World’s Book Titles: 129,864,880 – NPR August 12, 2010

Google’s Tally Of World’s Book Titles: 129,864,880

August 12, 2010

 

 
How many different books are there in the world? It’s a question Jon Orwant often hears. He’s an engineering manager at Google Books — part of the tech company’s efforts to digitize all of the world’s books. Recently, they announced an answer: 129,864,880. Melissa Block talks to Orwant about how Google came up with the number.

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MELISSA BLOCK, host: You may not have devoted your waking hours to wondering exactly how many books have been published, but Google has. In fact, they’re trying to count as part of a mission to index and digitize all of them.

So far, Google says, our planet has produced 129,864,880 books – at least that was the number as of last week. Jon Orwant is engineering manager at Google Books. So Jon, that was the number last week. What about now?