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Re:Show HN: Natural Language Querying by greenyoda on Thursday September 26, 2013 @09:33PM (#6454715)
Samuru says: "Kittens are cute because they're tiny fur-balls with smushed faces, according to goodreads.com"

That's not a very satisfying answer; it's more like just a quote from one of the references that their search engine found. If Samuru found a web site that said "Kittens are cute because they have big floppy purple ears and eat humans", would it know which one of these was a better answer (i.e., does it have any idea what a "kitten" actually is)?

Re:Show HN: Natural Language Querying by drakaal on Thursday September 26, 2013 @09:38PM (#6454741)
We said "alpha" for this reason. You would agree that it answers the question?

What we have to work out next is trust and authority. But to do that we need users to ask questions.

Honest, trying to think up questions to ask all day is hard.

And deciding who we trust and who we think is an idiot is hard. But the first step is figuring out the candidates to judge.