Google AI Blog: May 2011

Google Scribe: Now with automatic text for links and faster formatting options

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Posted by Kartik Singh and Kuntal Loya, Google Scribe teamGoogle Scribe'sGoogle Labs

Automatic text for links
Adding a hyperlink to your document has been a two-step process of choosing the link and the text to display for it. Google Scribe now makes it easier. Just paste or type any link into your document and Google Scribe will set an appropriate link text.

Smart toolbar
Do you repeatedly spend time reaching out to the toolbar to format your document ? To speed-up formatting, Google Scribe now displays an abridged toolbar close-by when you select a portion of the document.

Text completion in 12 languages
Google Scribe auto-completes text as you type. In addition to saving keystrokes, the suggestions indicate correct or popular phrases to use. Google Scribe now auto-detects document language, so you no longer need to choose a language.

You can view other applicable suggestions by clicking on the options button next to the Google Scribe icon and choosing “Show Multiple Suggestions”.

We have extended auto-complete support to Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish in addition to English that we already supported.

Correct your document as you type
Google Scribe now has basic support for checking spelling, punctuation and phrases in your document. Google Scribe underlines incorrect usage and clicking on underlined words or phrases will display a menu of suggested corrections to choose from.

We are continuously working on expanding the list of proofreading features. Stay tuned.

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Google at ACL 2011

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Posted by Ryan McDonald and Fernando Pereira, Research TeamAssociation for Computational Linguisticsmachine translationspeechthis years conferenceDekang LinArea ChairsPlatinum SponsorUnsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based ProjectionsDipanjan DasSlav Petrovsyntactic analysisMarius PascaWeb Search Queries as a CorpusKuzman GanchevRich Prior Knowledge in Learning for Natural Language ProcessingKatja FilippovaMonolingual Text-to-Text GenerationUnsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based ProjectionsLarge-Scale Cross-Document Coreference Using Distributed Inference and Hierarchical ModelsPiggyback: Using Search Engines for Robust Cross-Domain Named Entity RecognitionBeam-Width Prediction for Efficient Context-Free ParsingLanguage-independent compound splitting with morphological operationsModel-Based Aligner Combination Using Dual DecompositionBinarized Forest to String TranslationSemi-supervised Latent Variable Models for Fine-grained Sentiment Analysis

Make beautiful interactive maps even faster with new additions to the Fusion Tables API

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Posted by Rebecca Shapley, Jayant Madhavan, Rod McChesney, and Kathryn Hurley, Fusion Tables teamGoogle Fusion Tableslaunchedinnovative applicationsFusion Tables web appGuardian’s map of deprivation in the UKBay Citizen’s Bike Accident trackerTexas Tribune’s Census 2010 interactive mapFusion Tables SQL API

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Google at CHI 2011

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Posted by Yang Li, Research ScientistCross-posted with the Technical Programs and Events Blog Google has an increasing presence at ACM CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, which is the premiere conference for Human Computer Interaction research. Eight Google papers will appear at the conference. These papers not only touch on our core areas such as Search, Chrome and Android but also demonstrate our growing effort in new areas where HCI is essential, such as new search user interfaces, gesture-based interfaces and cross-device interaction. They showcase our efforts to address user experiences in diverse situations. Googlers are playing active roles in the conference in many other ways too: participating in conference committees, hosting panels, organizing workshops and teaching courses, as well as running demos and 1:1 sessions at Google's booth.
This year's CHI takes place in Vancouver, BC, from May 7th - 12th.PAPERSGesture Avatar: A Technique for Operating Mobile User Interfaces Using Gestures, by Hao Lü, Yang Li*
User-Defined Motion Gestures for Mobile Interaction by Jaime Ruiz, Yang Li*, Edward Lank
Experimental Analysis of Touch-Screen Gesture Designs in Mobile Environments by Andrew Bragdon, Eugene Nelson, Yang Li*, Ken Hinckley
Many Bills: Engaging Citizens through Visualizations of Congressional Legislation by Yannick Assogba, Irene Ros, Joan DiMicco, Matt McKeon*
YouPivot: Improving Recall with Contextual Search by Joshua Hailpern, Nicholas Jitkoff*, Andrew Warr*, Karrie Karahalios, Robert Sesek, Nik Shkrob
Oops, I Did It Again: Mitigating Repeated Access Control Errors on Facebook by Serge Egelman, Andrew Oates*, Shriram Krishnamurthi
Deep Shot: A Framework for Migrating Tasks Across Devices Using Mobile Phone Cameras by Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Yang Li*
DoubleFlip: A Motion Gesture Delimiter for Mobile Interaction by Jaime Ruiz, Yang Li*
WORKSHOPS
Crowdsourcing and Human Computation: Systems, Studies and Platforms PANELS Designing for User Experience: Academia & Industry by Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye, Elizabeth Buie, Jettie Hoonhout, Kristina Höök, Virpi Roto, Scott Jenson*, Peter Wright
Festschrift Panel in Honor of Stuart K. CardCHI Should be Replicating and Validating Results More: Discuss Transferability of Research Findings: Context-Dependent or Model-Driven by Ed H. Chi*, Mary Czerwinski, David Millen, Dave Randall, Gunnar Stevens, Volker Wulf, John Zimmerman
The Future of Child-Computer Interaction by Allison Druin, Gary Knell, Elliot Soloway, Dan Russell*, Elizabeth Mynatt, Yvonne Rogers
CASE STUDIES From Basecamp to Summit: Scaling Field Research Across 9 Locations by Jens Riegelsberger*, Audrey Yang*, Konstantin Samoylov*, Elizabeth Nunge*, Molly Stevens*, Patrick Larvie*
COURSES Design and Analysis of Large Scale Log Studies by Susan Dumais, Robin Jeffries*, Dan Russell*, Diane Tang*, Jaime Teevan
SIG MEETING
Participatory Culture in the Age of Social MediaNote: * denotes a Googler

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Google Scribe: Now with automatic text for links and faster formatting options

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Make beautiful interactive maps even faster with new additions to the Fusion Tables API

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