New York Times Facebook Graph Search

In order to find the article:

  1. I had to go to Google and search New York Times
  2. In the search box wrote Facebook
  3. Put in the  specific dates, 01/28/2013
  4. The very first article was what I was searching for
  • The author of the article is Somini Sengupta, who covers technology issues. She graduated with honors from Berkeley University.
  • The people who were mentioned in this article are:
  1. Loren Cheng, who is a search product manager and “who led what is known as the natural language processing part of the project”.  Mr. Cheng’s goal was to provide the comfort of the control for the users considering that all this time everything was done under the computer’s terms.
  2. 2 Linguists: Amy Campbell and Kathryn Hymes, both of who’s missions were “to teach Facebook’s computers how to communicate better with people.”
  3. Professor Clifford I. Nass, a professor of communication at Stanford who specializes in human-computer interaction.
  • Keywords/ Ideas

The ideas that i found interesting were:

“teach Facebook’s computers how to communicate better with people.”

“and all told, the search engine can recognize at least 275,000 ways to ask about “students.””