Re: [luv-talk] Natural language processing was ( Re: How best to move system to SSD)

Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:

Yes certainly; but surely the irrelevance of many search results indicates improvement is possible ?

There's an entire field of research devoted to "information retrieval" systems, the aim of which is to return the most relevant search results in response to a query. Google has considerable expertise in this area - in fact, as I recall, Google's founders were conducting information retrieval research at Stanford, and the company grew out of their research project. What I'm suggesting, then, is that further improvement may require the creation of algorithms that haven't yet been created (advances in computational linguistics, database technology, information retrieval etc.).