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That's because most search engines use a form of NLP in their processing of user input for queries.
by ajford 10y ago
That's because most search engines use a form of NLP in their processing of user input for queries.
- jordache 10y agoNo. the most trivial search strategy just tokenizes the input and looks up those token in the index. A poorly formed sentence, is not a detriment to finding out the intend, as long as key words are there. It doesn't require complex NLP to achieve this end result.
- squeaky-clean 10y agoIronically, "What day this week will be snow?" doesn't give me great results on Google, but Bing actually shows a weekly weather graph.
- jordache 10y ago"snow this week" will return the weather forecast for my location on google
- squeaky-clean 10y agoYeah, but that's grammatically valid. It's not a question, but it's a valid sentence.
- saghm 10y agoI don't think it's a valid sentence, unless you interpret it as commanding someone/something to snow sometime this week.
- jordache 10y agoSo will "this snow week when"
- DonaldFisk 10y agoThen why is it that you get just as good, if not better, search results when you type words in decreasing order of information content and omit common words, some of which are essential for parsing natural languages? E.g. Beatles walrus -> the song "I am the walrus" by the Beatles. Tintern vacuum -> the song "Vacuum cleaner" by Tintern Abbey.