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When I can get an answer (bonus if it is correct) to queries like 'How many times has John McCain appeared on the Daily Show?', I'll be impressed. One weak are
by comatose_kid 18y ago
When I can get an answer (bonus if it is correct) to queries like 'How many times has John McCain appeared on the Daily Show?', I'll be impressed.
One weak area in Google's armor is taking time into account, eg: 'How many times did John McCain appear on the Daily Show in 2006?'
- hank777 18y agoIndeed even the best search engines are only going to be able to answer that question if it is stated somewhere. Hakia can do that. However no search engine is going to be able to figure out the answer by, for example adding up all the times he appeared in a given year. So if someone wrote somewhere "john mcain was a guest on the daily show seven times in 2008" hakia should be able to give you an answer.
- yters 18y agoIt'd be interesting if search engines allowed a rudimentary query language for stuff like that.
- xirium 18y agoThere's a bigger problem there. For the current year, the quantity could change. Old, incorrect values would outweigh new, correct values. So, you still wouldn't get the right answer. "Who, what, when and how do" queries can be answered with current AI techniques but "how many" queries are much harder.
- prakash 18y agoI have not looked at Freebase in a while, but, theoretically they could -- assuming all the info is populated in freebase.