Powerset is a company based in San Francisco, California that is developing a natural language search engine for the Internet.
Powerset is working on building a natural language search engine that can find targeted answers to user questions (as opposed to keyword based search). For example, when confronted with a question like "Which U.S. state has the highest income tax?", conventional search engines ignore the question phrasing and instead do a...
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Powerset is a company based in San Francisco, California that is developing a natural language search engine for the Internet.
Powerset is working on building a natural language search engine that can find targeted answers to user questions (as opposed to keyword based search). For example, when confronted with a question like "Which U.S. state has the highest income tax?", conventional search engines ignore the question phrasing and instead do a search on the keywords "state", "highest", "income", and "tax". Powerset on the other hand, attempts to use natural language processing to understand the nature of the question and return pages containing the answer.
Currently, the company is in the process of "building a natural language search engine that reads and understands every sentence on the Web." The company has licensed natural language technology from PARC, the former Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
On May 11, 2008, the company unveiled a tool for searching a fixed subset of...
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