Expedia - semanticweb.com http://semanticweb.com The Voice of Semantic Web Business Copyright 2013 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:30:26 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 An Opinion of Semantic Travel Search Phillip Butler of Argophilia.com recently shared his opinions regarding semantic search as it relates to the travel industry, particularly with regard to Desti, a new travel search startup. Butler writes, “The other day Tnooz reported on Expedia testing their own variant of natural language search, now available in a Powerset-like sandbox called YourVisit. In that article Kevin May aptly points to other supposed ‘natural language search’ developments in travel, namely Evature and Hopper. The problem with this is, these systems are not AI nor true semantic search, in fact ‘natural language search’ is a buzz term actually used by Powerset to differentiate from hakia and Google semantic search experiments.” continued…

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]]> Angela Guess http://semanticweb.com/an-opinion-of-semantic-travel-search_b34754#disqus_thread http://semanticweb.com/an-opinion-of-semantic-travel-search_b34754 http://semanticweb.com/?p=34754 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:00:37 +0000 Expedia is Testing Natural Language Travel Search Kevin May of Tnooz reports, “It’s not just startups trying to capture the mood for developing natural language and semantic search in travel – Expedia is quietly working on its own platform. The project is being run out of a new research and development department within Expedia Affiliate Network and is currently aimed at providing partner sites with the early stages of natural language search using the mounds of data collected elsewhere around the Expedia portfolio. A sandbox site, YourVisit, is also up and running for testing (EAN admits it is a bit rough around the edges, but is in place purely for demonstration and beta purposes).” continued…

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]]> Angela Guess http://semanticweb.com/expedia-is-testing-natural-language-travel-search_b34416#disqus_thread http://semanticweb.com/expedia-is-testing-natural-language-travel-search_b34416 http://semanticweb.com/?p=34416 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:55:44 +0000