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What Are the Current and Future Enablers for Natural Language Queries to Return Answers? ( SWT-1) Speakers: > Gary Carlson, Chief Taxonomist, SchemaLogic.

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1 What Are the Current and Future Enablers for Natural Language Queries to Return Answers? ( SWT-1) Speakers: > Gary Carlson, Chief Taxonomist, SchemaLogic > Mike Moran, Distinguished Engineer and Product Manager of OmniFind Enterprise Edition, IBM Software Group Moderator: Lynda Moulton

2 http://gilbane.com 2 - ©2007 Gilbane Group, Inc. Gary Carlson: Making Search Relevant Making Search Relevant Chief Taxonomist for Schemalogic Product design and data modeling Works closely with customers on solution design and product implementation The importance and understanding of the role language plays in our work environments How normalizing and standardizing behaviors create a smarter mode of making content accessible from all points of view

3 http://gilbane.com 3 - ©2007 Gilbane Group, Inc. Mike Moran: Find What I Mean, Not What I Say Find What I Mean, Not What I Say Co-author of Search Engine Marketing, Inc.,Search Engine Marketing, Inc. 20 years experience in search technology at IBM Research, Lotus, other IBM software units Four patents in search and retrieval technology Product Manager for IBM's OmniFind search product Web site (mikemoran.commikemoran.com Difficulties of search revealed How semantically based technologies are enabling better search experiences

4 http://gilbane.com 4 - ©2007 Gilbane Group, Inc. Enterprise Search for Everything or the Right Things Need to strike a balance between search that gets good enough answers and only the best answers What are the circumstances where there is a payoff for getting semantically correct results for a search? Who needs to be involved in the selection and deployment of search? Trade-offs pre-processing by subject matter experts for better search results vs. post- processing by the user to weed out garbage

5 http://gilbane.com 5 - ©2007 Gilbane Group, Inc. Presentations and Contact Information Presentations URL: Presentations at Gilbane Boston: http://gilbaneboston.com/07/presentations.html http://gilbaneboston.com/07/presentations.html Lynda Moulton, Lead Analyst, Enterprise Search, The Gilbane Group lynda@gilbane.com http://gilbane.com/search_blog/ lynda@gilbane.com http://gilbane.com/search_blog/


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