2008/12/24 Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
The article is mostly discussing an area where we're somewhat lacking: Users can't easily come to us with natural language questions ('why is the sky blue?') and easily get results. Usually the answer is already in Wikipedia, we're not not indexed in a way which is helpful for these queries. Of course, there is the reference desk… but it's not especially well advertised, especially instant gratification, or especially scalable. Though it does get fantastic answers.
Did well on "why is the sky blue?"
Didn't do so well on "where are my keys?" though I now know how to ask that in Tagalog.
- d.