Reflections of Accomplishments in Natural Language Based Detection and Summarization

The common tie among these lines of research is that natural language processing techniques offer a way of overcoming the weaknesses inherent to purely statistical approaches. GE pioneered the large-scale use of natural language processing techniques in information retrieval. Standard statistical search methods use words, word fragments, and simple collocations to index documents. The GE work is unique in that it indexes texts using meaningfial linguistic units such as phrases, relations, entities, and events.