Saturday, April 24, 2010

Engkoo – Learn English with dictionary vertical Search from Bing and Microsoft Research

Engkoo is a search engine for exploring and learning language. It is built primarily by mining translation knowledge from billions of web pages - using the Internet to catch language in motion. Currently Engkoo is built for Chinese users who are learning English; however the technology itself is language independent and can be extended in the future.

 

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Matt Scott of Microsoft Research walks us through Engkoo: the new “dictionary” vertical search of Bing in China. What makes this English-Chinese assistance tool unique is that it unifies human translation mined from the web, machine translation, and a language learning experience, into one easy to use search and explore interface. By continuously discovering and processing high quality translation knowledge on the Internet, this technology can be used to close the ever expanding translation gap between English and Chinese.

 

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Engkoo is a collaboration between Bing, MSN, and Microsoft Research – leveraging years of research in Natural Language Computing, Speech, Human Computer Interaction and Web Search & Mining. Because the technology is language independent, next steps include building on it for other language pairs in the future.

 

Watch the demo - Engkoo: English Learning Vertical Search from Bing and MS Research in China

Try it yourself:

www.engkoo.com 


See it on Bing and MSN China:

http://cn.bing.com and http://cn.msn.com

 

(Source : Channel9 and Microsoft Research )



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