Category: Fact Extraction and Knowledge Graphs

Natural Language Query Responses at Google The ubiquitous nature of the Internet and the ease with which searchers can access the Web from many sources can enable searchers to share information and search for information related to their interests. Sea…

A pantent granted to Google this past fall explores how the search engine looks for patterns on Web pages to use to find facts on the Web to fill up Google’s data repository (Knowledge Base). I recently wrote a series of posts about Google collecting data to enable them to answer Direct answers. starting with … Continue reading Google on Crawling the Web of Data →

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When someone searches the web, and asks a question such as “what is the capital of Poland” or “what is the birth date of George Washington” a web search engine such as Google may not be very helpful in providing an answer if it provides a list of web pages that might answer that query … Continue reading How Google was Corroborating Facts for Direct Answers →

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You are cloxacillin, a kind of medication and an entity that some people may not know a lot about, but part of a bigger class of medicines that people are familiar with. And you’re taking a visit through a search engine as someone has been recently prescribed to you, and they want to know more […]

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In my first Patent Free Friday, I was going to write about two of the best marketers in the town I live in, a pair of bakers who bake on either end of the historic Main Street in Warrenton Virginia. I guess getting up in the early morning to bake the bread is conducive to […]

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Googe recently started showing “How to” lists in search results, which tend to show the first few steps of some task, and then let you click through to a page to see more. Like the recipes above for things like guacamole: They have also published an interesting paper that describes some of the steps that […]

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Revisting the Subscribed Links Patent Five Years Later and Finding the Rich Snippets Patent I first looked at this patent five years ago, but called it the Subscribed Links Patent. At the time, Google had a Subscribed links program, where site owners could create specialized search results based upon certain patterns of queries, that would […]

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A Google patent application explores how Google may answer factual questions from Web pages rather than more structured sources such as Freebase or Wikipedia. The processes described in the patent are pretty interesting, and they avoid a problem that I’ve been thinking about for weeks. The problem was one that came to me when I […]

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Tomorrow morning, I’m presenting on the Semantic Web at Google at Pubcon in Las Vegas. I’ve included my presentation deck here to use as a kicking off point for further discussion. Changes to what Google shows in search results have been difficult to miss, from many different types of rich snippets to recent additions of […]

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In creating a knowledge base, there seem to be a number of approaches that can be used to supply entities and facts from sources like web pages and query logs. In my last post, I wrote about how search queries might be used, along with linguistic patterns, to extract attributes about facts from those search […]

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Millions of searches stream into Google everyday as people try to meet their informational and situational needs. But those searches don’t disappear after the searches. They provide Google with some very interesting and useful information in return. For instance, they tell Google what people are interested in real time – right at this moment. Those […]

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Entities change all the time, and facts about them do as well. Derek Jeter retires from playing baseball and becomes a coach(?). Tom Cruise acts in a new movie, and decides to direct and produce it as well(?). Scotland decides whether or not it should be independent of the UK after 300 years(!). Sometimes some […]

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When Google introduced us to the knowledge graph, it also introduced us to pictures and the possibility of other kinds of rich content (video, audio, etc.) in those knowledge panels, and pictorial lists displayed in carousels at the top of pages in response to a query, such as “What is the tallest building in the […]

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I recently found a patent with two Google search engineers, Joshua Ain and Justin Boyan, listed as two of the three inventors. Last summer, at Google I/O in San Francisco, they joined together to talk about some tools that can more easily help webmasters add markup for structured data on the Web. The patent appears […]

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