Re:MIT Lecture Browser: Finds keywords so that students can...
by oPerrin on Monday November 26, 2007 @10:58PM
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This falls into a class of technologies which can be described thus: It would be awesome if it worked but probably won't.
On 15 search queries which I regularly perform on Google Scholar (e.g. QED, fMRI, Feynman, Jeff Hawkins etc.) I got zero useful results. The one hit on Feynman for example was a false positive.
While I really enjoyed their UI and watching the transcript follow along with the speech (play a video to see this happen) the accuracy was so low on all the key concept terms that I can't imagine how it would be useful at this level.
On 15 search queries which I regularly perform on Google Scholar (e.g. QED, fMRI, Feynman, Jeff Hawkins etc.) I got zero useful results. The one hit on Feynman for example was a false positive.
While I really enjoyed their UI and watching the transcript follow along with the speech (play a video to see this happen) the accuracy was so low on all the key concept terms that I can't imagine how it would be useful at this level.