Computational linguist Hong Liang Qiao's third generation search engine -
A Search Engine that Answers Questions
2005-10-10 11:41:13
By Reporter: Fugang Xu (Translator: Ke Guo)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ask Lexxe a question here: http://www.lexxe.com/about/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
In the next five to ten years, Internet search engines will not be like today's Google and Yahoo. They will become more intelligent and be able to understand human languages. Search accuracy rate will also be enhanced enormously.
Not long ago, a middle-aged Australian technology expert of Chinese descendent developed and debuted a third generation Internet search engine Lexxe (www.lexxe.com) on the Internet. It is claimed that this new search engine will be able to recognize various sentence types, analyze syntax, disambiguate word sense in context, and understand users' intention through questions and keywords in the queries. As a result, search results are more accurate, reliable and satisfactory.
The inventor of the new generation search engine is called Hong Liang Qiao. When on transit in Singapore, he was my guest for an exclusive interview.
Hong Liang Qiao graduated from the Department of English, Shanghai International Studies University. He received his Master of Arts degree in Linguistics from the University of Leeds in U.K. in 1988 and Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1997. He has been an academic and researcher in Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Queensland, Uppsala University in Sweden, Bergen University in Norway, Microsoft Research Institute (Australia) and University of Sydney.
In recent years, Dr. Hong Liang Qiao has mainly been engaged in high-tech research and development for commercial purposes and founding new ventures. His multiple research achievements span from speech recognition to natural language interface to databases, and from word sense disambiguation to search engine technology.
-- Incorporating Language Intelligence
As Chief Scientist at Monkey Pty Ltd in Australia in 2002, Hong Liang Qiao successfully developed a search engine driven by modern language technology for the first time. The following year, he founded General Language Machines and this year, he founded Lexxe.
The second generation Internet search engines’ core technology is known as “Symbolic Computing”, said Hong Liang Qiao, while Lexxe’s fundamental technology for the new generation is based on “Linguistic Computing” algorithms. The difference between the two is that the latter is able to process the words in users' queries and those indexed words in the webpages as language, rather than symbols. Lexxe has developed considerable intelligence in language understanding.
For example, if one enters the question “Who assassinated President Lincoln?”, one will immediately get the answer C John Wilkes Booth.
However, the answers depend very much on whether they exist on the Internet and the frequency of their occurrences. Hong Liang Qiao said, at the moment Lexxe is only applicable for search in English language and it works better if the question is 10 or under 10 words long, because the longer the question, the harder it is to match the desirable information.
(Source: zaobao.com)
A Search Engine that Answers Questions
2005-10-10 11:41:13
By Reporter: Fugang Xu (Translator: Ke Guo)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ask Lexxe a question here: http://www.lexxe.com/about/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
In the next five to ten years, Internet search engines will not be like today's Google and Yahoo. They will become more intelligent and be able to understand human languages. Search accuracy rate will also be enhanced enormously.
Not long ago, a middle-aged Australian technology expert of Chinese descendent developed and debuted a third generation Internet search engine Lexxe (www.lexxe.com) on the Internet. It is claimed that this new search engine will be able to recognize various sentence types, analyze syntax, disambiguate word sense in context, and understand users' intention through questions and keywords in the queries. As a result, search results are more accurate, reliable and satisfactory.
The inventor of the new generation search engine is called Hong Liang Qiao. When on transit in Singapore, he was my guest for an exclusive interview.
Hong Liang Qiao graduated from the Department of English, Shanghai International Studies University. He received his Master of Arts degree in Linguistics from the University of Leeds in U.K. in 1988 and Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1997. He has been an academic and researcher in Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Queensland, Uppsala University in Sweden, Bergen University in Norway, Microsoft Research Institute (Australia) and University of Sydney.
In recent years, Dr. Hong Liang Qiao has mainly been engaged in high-tech research and development for commercial purposes and founding new ventures. His multiple research achievements span from speech recognition to natural language interface to databases, and from word sense disambiguation to search engine technology.
-- Incorporating Language Intelligence
As Chief Scientist at Monkey Pty Ltd in Australia in 2002, Hong Liang Qiao successfully developed a search engine driven by modern language technology for the first time. The following year, he founded General Language Machines and this year, he founded Lexxe.
The second generation Internet search engines’ core technology is known as “Symbolic Computing”, said Hong Liang Qiao, while Lexxe’s fundamental technology for the new generation is based on “Linguistic Computing” algorithms. The difference between the two is that the latter is able to process the words in users' queries and those indexed words in the webpages as language, rather than symbols. Lexxe has developed considerable intelligence in language understanding.
For example, if one enters the question “Who assassinated President Lincoln?”, one will immediately get the answer C John Wilkes Booth.
However, the answers depend very much on whether they exist on the Internet and the frequency of their occurrences. Hong Liang Qiao said, at the moment Lexxe is only applicable for search in English language and it works better if the question is 10 or under 10 words long, because the longer the question, the harder it is to match the desirable information.
(Source: zaobao.com)
