Publications

Abstract: Problems that involve interacting with humans, such as natural language understanding, have not proven to be solvable by concise, neat formulas like F = ma. Instead, the best approach appears to be to embrace the complexity of the domain and address it by harnessing the power of data: if other humans engage in the tasks and generate large amounts of unlabeled, noisy data, new algorithms can be used to build high-quality models from the data.

Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, Fernando Pereira (Google), "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 8-12, March/April, 2009.