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2004-08-03

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Bill Gates: "In the area of machine translation, we've been running some interesting experiments where we take our support databases and have half of them hand translated and half of them machine translated. And what we're seeing when we did that, taking English articles and putting them in Spanish, is that the satisfaction was every bit as high for the machine-translated articles."

2004-08-03-mtx

Rich Skrenta on how Topix works: "The Topix.net NewsRank engine is reading each story individually, determining locality and subject information based on the content of the article. NewsRank also condenses 17 dimensions of importance from every story into a single value. [...] Our solution is to disambiguate references to people, places and subjects, and match them against our Knowledge Base of 150,000 topics."

Some commentary from Greg Linden. I wonder how similar Topix' disambiguation technology is to CIRCA ...