semantic

Semantic zoom is a control used by apps in Windows 8 for displaying large sets of content in a truly user friendly format. Semantic Zoom is unique in that it provides an easy to navigate, touch optimized view of the data you present to users. In designing Windows 8 we wanted to ensure users…

Scott Prevost is General Manager and Director of Product for Powerset, the company whose semantic search engine was recently acquired by Microsoft. In this interview he describes the history of Powerset's natural language engine, and explains how it works as part of a hybrid approach to…

Abstract: Most users have experienced optical zooming which allows them to use a familiar pinching gesture to scale the elements on the display. In a similar fashion, semantic zoom allows the user to zoom in or out on lists of data. It transforms the list in a way that helps the user to get oriented…

Thanks to Microsoft’s acquisition of semantic search startup Powerset last year, the new “decision engine” Bing has access to semantically indexed Wikipedia content which is used to deliver special types of search results for faster answers. A recent post on the Bing community blogs delved into…