The Omniscient Web

Danger! Danger!

Rational vs. Empirical

Data, Data, and more Data

Dangerous Proposition!

Example: Brill and Banko

Example: Question Answering

QA: Using the Web

QA: Using Redundancy

QA: Results

Example: WSD

Example: Coreference

Example: Coreference

Commonsense: the Holy Grail

Commonsense: Birds flying

Commonsense: Jack’s party

Who Cares?

Implications?

The End