25 March 2013

How Graph Search is working (sort of) - this article is about the mechanism of executing the query
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10151361720763920

Even more interesting is this article on how natural language sentences are turned into queries
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10151432733048920

This system seems to be an example of a shallow parser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_parsing

All in all it seems to be an interesting development:  search is now the frontier of classical Artificial Intelligence.