Sunday, May 7, 2006, 11:15-12:15
Room 309
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Oren Etzioni
Title: All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Google
Abstract: For the
last quarter century (measured in person years), the
KnowItAll project has focused on
accumulating massive amounts of
information from the Web by
utilizing domain-independent, fully
automated techniques. If successful,
this effort has the potential to
address the long-standing "Knowledge
Acquisition Bottleneck" in
Artificial Intelligence, and enable a new generation of
search engines
that extract and synthesize
information from text to answer complex user
queries. This talk will describe
the evolution of the KnowItAll family
of systems (or is it Intelligent
Design?) culminating in TextRunner---a
program that has extracted over 1,000,000,000
"facts" from the Web
without breaking a sweat.