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Powerset

Powerset is working on building a search engine that can find targeted answers to user questions (as opposed to keyword based search). For example, when confronted with a question of the form 'which U.S. state has the highest income tax?', conventional search engines ignore the question and instead do a search on the keywords 'state, income and tax'. Powerset's product, on the other hand, attempts to use natural language processing to understand the nature of the question and then to search and...