Named entity extraction

October 12, 2004

John Battelle describes an intriguing glimpse of Google's forthcoming search clustering technology, from last week's Web 2.0 conference:

"Named entity extraction" is a relatively new project called which Norvig said Google had been working on for about six months. As Norvig explained the concept - essentially identifying semantically important concepts and the meaning wrapped around them ... This has potentially interesting implications in next-generation ranking methodologies, for one, but combined with clustering, it signals that Google is serious about taking what one might call the UI plunge. That plunge is certainly long overdue. While your guess is good as mine, I can only imagine that they might be thinking in Grokker-ly terms (minus the colored bubbles, let's hope).

> Google's Web 2 Demo and the UI Plunge

File under: Semantic Web

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