| | Web of lies? Historical knowledge on the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | This disambiguation problem is one of the thorniest issues of information retrieval and data mining in computer science. |
 | | Despite the importance of the disambiguation problem, it is not a problem of the quality of historical information on the Web but rather of the sophistication of the tools—like H-Bot—for mining that information. |
 | | H-Bot’s difficulties with these nine distant misses and the five completely wrong answers were again due, in this case almost entirely, to disambiguation issues—for example, the ability to understand when a question about Frederick III refers to the Holy Roman Emperor (1415–93), the Elector of Saxony (1463-1525), or the King of Denmark and Norway (1609-1670). |
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