Google just announced a cool addition to Google News. “As part of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information, we’ve been hard at work making quotations in news articles easy to search and browse. You can now more easily keep track of what your favorite politician, actor or sports star is saying. You can even search within their quotes for specific topics.”
If you search for a person’s name on Google News, you can see statements where that person has been quoted by a news source. For example, search on Google News for [Barack Obama's quotes on Iraq] and you’ll see something like this!
Quotes by Barack Obama
Yesterday in Raleigh, Senator Obama told voters, “Last night I think we set a new record because it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people. Took us 45 min. 45 minutes before we heard…
“Meanwhile, Senator McCain has been saying I don’t understand national security, but he’s the one who wants to keep tens of thousands of United States troops in Iraq for as long as 100 years,” Obama said.
“That was the rollout of the Republican campaign against me in November. It happened just a little bit early, but that is what they will do,” Obama said. “They will try to focus on all these issues that don’t have anything to do with how you are paying…
“Senator McCain has been saying I don’t understand national security, but he’s the one who wants to keep tens of thousands of United States troops in Iraq for as long as 100 years,” he told reporters yesterday in Pennsylvania.
“Last night I think we set a new record because it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people,” Obama told the North Carolina crowd. “Forty-five minutes before we heard about health care, 45…
“We can’t afford to be distracted …… everytime somebody somewhere says something stupid that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq and we forget about the economy,” Obama said.
Addressing the US ambassador in Iraq, Ryan Crocker, and the commander there, General David Petraeus, during a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama said: “If there’s not huge outbreaks of violence, there’s still corruption but the…
And in the Democratic debate Wednesday night, Obama said he would “proceed deliberately, in an orderly fashion, out of Iraq,” staying with that objective while letting military commanders recommend tactics to achieve it.
“John McCain wants to continue the war in Iraq, I want to end it. John McCain wants to continue George Bush’s economic policies, I want to change them. And I think we will persuade the American people that we need a new direction because John McCain…
This is very impressive application of natural language processing in Google News — it now extracts quotations from news stories, even handling things like “he said” and “she said” and resolving them back to the speaker.
I think this is still is “real” beta. The quotes can be a bit more deep in history. It only shows recent quotes. No Abe Lincoln quotes, sorry (as of now).
I am impressed. What about you?
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