Monday, 19 May 2008

Powerset

An interesting way to extract information from wikipedia, where you can try natural language queries: http://www.powerset.com/ It retrieves relevant articles, and highlights the most relevant sentences within articles. I got interesting answers for: "What is a standard candle in astronomy?" "When was the first supernova observed?" But sometimes the results are more precise, giving you the exact answer ! "Who discovered the neutrino?" "Who killed kennedy?" "When was Albert Einstein born?"

1 comment:

Mark Johnson said...

Neat examples. I especially like who discovered the neutrino. If you find more examples, you should post them (with links).

{mark} powerset product manager