He told us that two of the biggest hurdles faced by his team were dealing with the massive amount of data and incorporating natural language search.
Zalis co-founded and wrote the code for QPID, which stands for Queriable Patient Inference Dossier, a natural language search tool that extracts relevant clinical information from an EHR.
Infocious was a Web technology company that had developed a natural-language-augmented Web search engine.
InsideView uses an aggregation of open source and proprietary technology for search and natural language processing to track social media related to the sales process.
And Facebook just revealed that it built a natural-language interface for its Graph Search service announced earlier this year.
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Generally posed in natural language, human-asked questions are search engine lightning rods for companies that produce content on the fly.
Apple and Google are also working on natural language comprehension for use in voice-activiated search engines for phones.
Imagine a world where every document on any data platform is instantly organized, indexed and searchable in much the same way consumers search the Web, with natural language queries.
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Voice Search is much faster and better now at understanding natural language.
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Autonomy makes a lot of products that do that, from enterprise search and document discovery, to video cataloging, natural language processing, and the generation of classifications and taxonomies on the fly.
Powerset, the search engine that Pell created in 2003 and plans to open to the public in 2008, is one of a new crop of "semantic search" start-ups that aim to introduce natural language to the process of finding information on the Web.
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