martinibuster - 9:50 pm on Dec 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

There's more to this story than meets the eye:

I saw a new story [sfgate.com] about Russia that mentioned an overseas tech placement firm named Xim that did work for Jeeves. This is what Xim says [ximxim.com] on their website about their work for Ask Jeeves.

XIM developed NLQCT, a “Natural Language Questions Clustering Tool” for AskJeeves, Inc. State-of-the-art technology used in this software is based on semantic analysis of documents that uses Bayesian algorithm and elements of neural network computing. This means the software can be quickly adapted to any language, as the technology deals with concepts rather than with the words that are used to describe these concepts. Adaptation of the software to a new language requires a relatively limited amount of work. Then the system learns automatically during the 'training' phase...

The part about adapting to new languages is interesting. It seems to imply that they have the ability to do a rapid rollout in any language.

Jeeves' has been talking about partnering with or buying a non-English language European PPC/Search entity. Mirago has been mentioned.

What is "elements of neural network computing?"

[edited by: martinibuster at 10:01 pm (utc) on Dec. 10, 2003]