2011 Frontiers of Engineering: Advancing Natural Language Understanding

National Academy of Engineering 2011 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium September 19-21, 2011 Google, Inc. Mountain View, California Advancing Natural Language Understanding with Collaboratively Generated Content September 19, 2011 Presented by Dr. Evgeniy Gabrilovich. ABSTRACT: Google hosted 100 attendees of the 2011 Nat'l Academy of Engineering's U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium (FOE) at our Mountain View office and Dinah's Garden Hotel in Palo Alto. The symposium is an annual three-day meeting that brings together 100 of the nation's outstanding young engineers (ages 30-45) from industry, academia, and government to discuss pioneering technical and leading-edge research in various engineering fields and industry sectors. About the speaker: Dr. Evgeniy Gabrilovich is a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo! in California. In his talk Dr. Gabrilovich provides an overview of using collaboratively generated content for representing the semantics of natural language, and discusses new information retrieval algorithms enabled by this representation.