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One thing they probably really like is the natural language parsing. It's surprisingly good (though by no means perfect) at automatically tagging your question.
by jackowayed 17y ago
One thing they probably really like is the natural language parsing. It's surprisingly good (though by no means perfect) at automatically tagging your question.
For example, looking through my old questions, I think it automatically tagged "what's a good place to get a cheap SSL certificate? I don't think I need wildcard subdomains" as "SSL".
In a perfect world, you ask Google a question just like you'd ask a person a question, and they answer it with the info you want, so they might be interested in the technology and people that make this intelligent tagging work as a step in that direction.
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoAh, thanks for that analysis. This is a part that I was missing.
- shafqat 17y agoNot to be snarky, but what is impressive about tagging your question with "SSL" - the exact keyword is in the question. No semantic analysis or NLP required - just simple keyword based entity extraction.
- jackowayed 17y agoI know, it's not brilliant, but SSL wasn't in a particularly special place in the sentence or anything that would make it easy for a computer to figure it out. Compare that question to something like "I am using Rails. How do I ...?", where a computer would have a pretty easy time of figuring out that Rails is important with some simple parsing logic.
- bigbang 17y agoNot quite true. Using the standard TF-IDF would have definitely figured out SSL.