Google Tech Talk: Knowledge in Search Engines

Event details
Date | 13.12.2013 |
Hour | 15:15 › 16:30 |
Speaker | Olivier Bousquet, Google, Zürich |
Location | |
Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Over the last few years, search engines have evolved from complex keyword matching and scoring algorithms towards systems that can understand users questions and answer them directly. Important factors in this evolution are the ability to represent knowledge in a way that computers can manipulate it, and the ability to connect structured knowledge to natural language corpora. This talk will discuss how Google search has been going through a radical transformation in this direction. We will talk about some of the key technologies behind the Google Knowledge Graph and its applications in search.
Olivier Bousquet is a Director of Engineering in the search team at Google. He led the team that developed the natural language understanding technology behind Google's Knowledge Graph. Prior to Google, Olivier was Director of Research at Pertinence (now part of Dassault Systèmes), working on data analysis algorithms that make manufacturing processes more efficient. He also has extensive experience in Machine Learning and holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique (France).
Olivier Bousquet is a Director of Engineering in the search team at Google. He led the team that developed the natural language understanding technology behind Google's Knowledge Graph. Prior to Google, Olivier was Director of Research at Pertinence (now part of Dassault Systèmes), working on data analysis algorithms that make manufacturing processes more efficient. He also has extensive experience in Machine Learning and holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique (France).
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- Kamila Madry