Ahead of Semantic Technology Conference, Powerset announced the public availability of a service that adds a whole new dimension to searching for information from Wikipedia. Whilst much of the functionality has been visible to those granted access to the company’s Powerlabs for some time, the Powerset team has clearly been busy optimizing code and ensuring that the various components work together much better. Powerset places much store by their ability to ‘read and extract meaning’ from a user’s query; and from the resources that they are searching. Although today’s beta is targeted at articles from Wikipedia, Powerset’s ambitions are obviously larger.
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