Tweet Google I/O 2015 was a very important day for privacy researchers. For the first time Google acknowledged a need for better privacy control. Researchers and Developers working with...
Tweet If you are a Google Glass user, you might have been greeted with concerned looks or raised eyebrows at public places. There has been a lot of chatter in the “interweb” regarding the loss of...
Tweet Google is offering a free, online MOOC style course on ‘Making Sense of Data‘ from March 18 to April 4 taught by Amit Deutsch (Google) and Joe Hellerstein (Berkeley). Interestingly, it...
Tweet Google has a very nice demonstration of web application that extracts information from Freebase and displays it on a Google map. It uses the Google Maps JavaScript API and the Freebase...
Tweet A post on Google’s research blog lists the major datasets for NLP and KB processing that Google has released in the past year. They include datasets to help in entity linking, relation...
Tweet Top Charts is a new feature for Google Trends that identifies the popular searches within a category, i.e., books or actors. What’s interesting about it, from a technology standpoint,...
Tweet A post in Micrsoft’s Bing blog, Understand Your World with Bing, announced that an update to their Satori knowledge base allows Bing to do a better job of identifying queries that...
Tweet We felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were about to be silenced. We fear something terrible is about to happen. We went...
Tweet Google released the Wikilinks Corpus, a collection of 40M disambiguated mentions from 10M web pages to 3M Wikipedia pages. This data can be used to train systems that do entity linking...
Tweet Google Sets was a the result of a early Google research project that ended in 2011. The idea was to be able to recognize the similarity of a set of terms (e.g., python, lisp and...