September/October 2008

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Natural Language Processing and the Web

The Web contains more than 10 billion indexable text pages, accessible mostly through keyword-based search engines. This issue focuses on innovative uses of the Web as a large-scale distributed, evolving, and multilingual corpus and on building state-of-the-art natural-language interfaces to search engines.

Also in this issue: swarm robots, sound recognition, managing energy distribution, Web semantics and cloud computing, and more

Issue Highlights
The following articles are available without an electronic subscription:

A Letter from the Editor
We've Come a Long Way, Maybe ... (pdf)
James Hendler
Despite all the major AI successes, when it comes to really understanding the human mind, we still know very little.

Natural Language Processing and the Web
Learning to Tag and Tagging to Learn: A Case Study on Wikipedia (pdf)
Peter Mika, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Hugo Zaragoza, and Jordi Atserias
Named entity recognition (NER) technology can be used to significantly enrich the metadata in Wikipedia.

Histories & Futures
Managing Household Wind-Energy Generation (pdf)
Geoff James, Wei Peng, and Ke Deng
Intelligent-agent technology can help aggregate wind-energy generation and battery storage installed at a large number of households, creating a "virtual generator" that can managed similarly to centralized generation.

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