A noun-noun compound is a noun phrase composed only of nouns, like chocolate box . And ok, the title above isn't quite right. It should be "A Noun-Noun Compound is like a Box of Chocolates." And in fact Chocolate Box , although a common phrase (383,000...

Query of the Week: Who proved Fermat’s last theorem? Sometimes how you say something is just as important as what you say. This is true in life and in searching the Internet. For example, let’s look at the query “who proved Fermat’s...

Yes, it's true. Today, Powersetter Kevin Clark posted an article on his blog, confirming that Powerset will launch it's front end in Ruby .Powerset already uses Ruby for many internal tools, our blog and website look beautiful thanks to Mephisto , and...

One morning back in grad school I was sitting in Cafe Milano on Bancroft Avenue in Berkeley, reading the campus newspaper, the Daily Cal . In true Berkeley form, in the 70's the newspaper's staff had rebelled and taken the paper off-campus, away from...

Suppose you wanted to find every sentence in Wikipedia where Steve Jobs reportedly said something about the iPod. Pretty easy, right? You’re a pretty good searcher, so you pull up your favorite search engine and type in Steve Jobs iPod site:en.wikipedia...

As a graduate student, I took courses from UC Berkeley's Professor Charles (Chuck) Fillmore, one of the world's greatest linguists. Prof. Fillmore's specialty is the interrelationship between meaning and the structure of language, and his FrameNet project...

As a teaser for Powerlabs, we've decided to release a "Query of the Week." Each week, we'll release a screenshot of Powerset search results that demonstrate aspects of our Natural Language technology. When Powerlabs is fully launched, you'll get to play...

Many of you have left comments on the Powerset blog like "when will u b ready?" essentially asking when users will get to see and play with Powerset . We've listened! While we're not ready quite yet to show off our stuff, we are getting very close and...

In the old Family Feud game show, contestants battle to fill in the blank with the most popular answers for questions like "Name a famous Julia" or "Name something you do on the beach". The skill of the game is to figure out what other people think and...