Searching for Customers, Finding Pollution

Finding the "right" answers for customers

This talk will present a few NLG systems developed within Thomson Reuters providing information to professionals such as lawyers, accountants or traders. Based on the experience developing these system, I will discuss the usefulness of automatic metrics, crowd-sourced evaluation, corpora studies and expert reviews. I will conclude with exploring the question of whether developers of NLG systems...

Finding without Searching

Not searching, but finding

Previous research about firms’ perceptions on the usefulness of public research has not distinguished between technological innovators and non-innovators. With the exception of openness of search, we find that factors shaping such perceptions differ in both types of firms. Non-innovators need market power and the presence of an R&D department to profit from public knowledge. Innovators need les...

Searching versus Finding:

Finding information and organizing information so that it can be found are two key aspects of any company's knowledge management strategy. This article describes what I have learned from years of thinking about these problems and from a research project at Sun Microsystems Laboratories that combines the respective strengths of humans and computers in a knowledgebased system to help people find ...

“We are searching! What are we finding?”

A locus is a position on a chromosome occupied by genes that determine the state of a particular phenotypic character. When that phenotypic character is something that is measurable, such as mm of fat, or kg of body weight, rather than something that is qualitative, such as eye or coat colour, the locus will be referred to as a quantitative trait locus (QTL). The various occupants of the locus ...