We've talked a lot more about how to
use natural language searches in Spotlight, so check that article out for more depth: there's a lot to figure out here.
Additionally, there is a new image search functionality that
brings natural language search and allows the user to search their photo gallery using keywords like people, locations, and expressions.
The study found that when it came to Westlaw, it was «not clear from the promotional material if the methodologies include
true natural language searching or not» as the interface lists its search as «plain language» while «early WestlawNext promotional material calls it «natural language.»
That means we get
better natural language search, and Apple gets to intermediate data away from Google and broker it to select, best of breed providers like Yelp and Open Table.
At the other extreme, a
sophisticated natural language search engine with highly refined usage and lexicological parameters can provide unprecedented effectiveness, but at very high startup and ongoing implementation costs.
Facebook created Graph Search in early 2013 with the hope that users would leverage Facebook for
more natural language search queries like the restaurant one above.
Having a full library of Google Play Books at your disposal would normally require obscene amounts of time and money to purchase all of them, but if you're looking for a specific passage, Google's new AI - based
natural language search experiment called «Talk To Books» may be just what you need.
And last year, Google introduced its Hummingbird update, which emphasized the importance of
natural language search requests, many of which are in the form of questions.
Bottom line: the hype over ROSS as revolutionary artificial intelligence is misplaced, but it actually does a good job making the task of
natural language searching much easier.
As these solutions have evolved over the years, changes have largely (and we are painting with a broad brush here)
involved natural language search, expansions in content, usability, connections between content resources, and intelligent recommendations.
As the guesswork is removed from finding applicable case law by
using natural language searching and better results filtering, how will this convert into the legal writing component of attorneys» work?
There are customisable widgets, new notification settings and a new image search functionality that
brings natural language search and allows the user to search their photo gallery using keywords like people, locations, and expressions.
In terms of research efficiency, the study found that the ROSS users reduced their research time by 30.3 percent over users of Boolean search and 22.3 percent over users
of natural language search.
Google is improving
its natural language search — you can take your words, paste them in, and get a fair idea what's available.
For the researchers using ROSS and either Boolean or
natural language search, we do not know how they balanced the two tools.
ROSS and
natural language search, in which researchers were directed to use the ROSS platform and natural language search capabilities of major legal research platforms as they saw fit.
Quotes can now be used to narrow searches and Lexis Advance can decide for you whether terms and connectors or
natural language search is appropriate.
For instance, they all promote
their natural language searching, so when the keywords go into the search box, researchers expect relevant results.
Without quotation marks, Google will run
a natural language search.
Libraries are searchable by keyword (or Boolean search),
natural language search or citation lookup.
Natural language searches should be as effective, if not more effective, using because Google's search engine uses better search algorithms.
Powerset is — or will be in September — among other things
a natural language search engine.
Quicklaw uses a default «OR» in a search entered into its main search box, but recognizes Boolean logic if it is entered, and includes
a natural language search box on another part of the page.
The study assigned researchers to four groups, one using Boolean search on either Westlaw or LexisNexis, a second using
natural language search on either Westlaw or LexisNexis, a third using ROSS and Boolean search, and fourth using ROSS and natural language search.
The default «OR» and
natural language searches, which also don't generally require the presence of all entered terms, have some advantages, as virtually any search that is entered will return something.
Entering a case — or a Boolean or
natural language search — will get you a visual map of circles, arrows, and lines.
For instance,
a natural language search for «drunk driving law Texas» on Google Scholar, Westlaw, and the Public Library of Law will garner widely different top results.
We've written a few times about powerset,
the natural language search engine.
Something that I had long wondered was whether
natural language search was truly being offered by the 6 tools tested in Mart's study and it would appear, according to the research, that none of the six legal database search services offer true natural language search.