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Source: PC World A Few Products Under Development At Microsoft Research
In this article mentions of Mindnet ""A huge natural language database automatically created from dictionaries," in development at MSR. The dictionary information helps links words by their relationships. It is a much more sophisticated sibling of the grammar checking technology in Microsoft Word. Ask MSR:"a natural language, automated question answering site that is used internally for fun more than work. It researches questions across the Internet. "It's a very early stage of the technology," Rashid says. "We get about 50 percent of the answers right." For now, he says, that technology is best suited to help answer the very specific, expensive questions at the end of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? rather than the common-sense queries in the early rounds. Computers are apparently still learning common sense."
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