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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Search engines are good at matching words across websites but have struggled with nuance to answer questions in everyday language. Google today can answer basic factual queries. The next step is semantic search--looking for meaning, not just matching key words. Oren Etzioni, a University of Washington computer scientist, uses language-analysis programs to power KnowItAll, which scans documents for facts--Oswald killed J.F.K., for example. So far, KnowItAll has extracted 900 million facts--enabling it to answer questions. Nosa Omoigui, 33, a former Microsoft researcher, founded Bellevue-based Nervana, which analyzes language by linking word patterns...
Shapiro may be exaggerating the public's docuphobia. Consider how quickly the home audience tired of sitcom verities and embraced the supposedly factual dramas laid out in Survivor and its spawn. If reality TV can take over, why not reality...
...entertainment channels are also being discussed. Al-Jazeera's new look includes an overhaul of the nine-year-old mother channel. As it moves into new headquarters of its own in the Qatari capital of Doha in July, company officials say, the Arabic channel's broadcasts will emphasize factual reporting on issues like political reform. Hamad bin Thamer told TIME that the board is studying a report by Ernst & Young on how to become more financially competitive, with a view toward privatizing al-Jazeera. No date has been set for an IPO, but the chairman suggests that when it happens...
...think so far she’s actually done a pretty good job as Secretary of State. But her connection to the lead up to the Iraq War and the statements made by the administration and her continuing to stand by those statements in the face of overwhelming factual evidence was not right...
...impressed that they fairly did a good job with the numbers, they did a fairly good job of keeping it factual,” he said...