Peter Norvig, director of Google Research, talks about future trends and outstanding problems in search.
These are the directions of impact:
- The two biggest projects are machine translation and the speech project. Translation and speech went all the way from one or two people working on them to, now, live systems.
- In general, we think there are two aspects of [outstanding problems]. One is understanding users’ needs more. The other is understanding the contents of documents, whether they be Web pages or video.
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