[Search-l] A Google Developer Day presentation by Peter Norvig

[William Surowiec]

  ... entitled "Theorizing from Data: Avoiding the Capital Mistake"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU8DcBF-qo4

It is about 50 minutes long.

About a third of the way through (time stamp 13:30 - 21:30) is some 
interesting stuff on (my words, not his) statistical learning employed 
in the creation of a semantic web. There is a short, but insightful 
comment on using queries to help "understand" the content.

Closer to the end (34:00) he speaks of better results through a better 
understanding of the user's intent (again, my words) and hooking up the 
query maker with the content maker in words that express another 
interpretation of "a personal way."

The questions are good.

All in all, better than network tv - and no commercials (unless one 
considers playing with this stuff attractive):


The Google contribution to the LDC mentioned in the video:
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2006T13