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SUMMARY:Web search in an AI world: small\, cute\, distributed. - Dr Aureli
 e Herbelot -  University of Trento
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CONTACT:David Greaves
DESCRIPTION:There is arguably little scope in 2016 for reinventing Web sea
 rch. The technology is mature\, and served by well-functioning commercial 
 entities. At\nthe same time\, it seems that the very notion of Web search 
 might be becoming obsolete: in a world where the most recent advances in A
 I promise general\nlanguage understanding\, combined with visual processin
 g and multi-agent learning\, does searching the Internet still require spe
 cial algorithms?\n\nIn this talk\, I will present PeARS\, an open-source p
 roject aiming at building Web search on top of a more generic agent-to-age
 nt communication algorithm. The\nsearch process is akin to 'calling a frie
 nd' over a distributed network of private machines and is thus configurabl
 e by each user. The system builds on the latest research in distributional
  semantics rather than a classic Information Retrieval algorithm. I will s
 how how this choice brings the promise of an AI-based search\, including s
 ophisticated language understanding and the seamless integration of percep
 tual data\, while being confronted with age-old questions in linguistics.\
 n\n\nNote also\, on November 10\, there will be a workshop on Open Source 
 and NLP involving Dr Herbelot and other members of the PeARS team: please 
 see http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/68918.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory
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