[Sigia-l] RE: Nat Lang Search (was gimpsy)

[michel.milano]

At 12:44 -0800 11/1/02, Avi Rappoport wrote:
>I hope it's useful, the implementations I've seen have failed to 
>scale to really large or generic systems.  Much easier to apply to a 
>single domain of knowledge, such as using a CAD program than to the 
>variety of human information seeking!  It's also language dependent, 
>not exactly global or webwide...
>
>Avi


avi (and all),

is this the reason that the nat.lang. search engines have not been 
implemented in any
significant way, but have only appeared in sideshows or sitelets that 
are part of a
larger site/system?
say, as a laptop sales assistant, and not as a computer store sales assistant?

are there any estimates for how much work it takes to scale a 
nat.lang engine from a
single domain to multiple domains?
(for example, suppose some store had a nat.lang engine for just its 
books...are there rules of thumb for
how much additional work it could take to scale it to cover books & 
music & tools/hardware
& movies & baby stuff ?)


/m/milano