The Acquisition of Information in The Age of Intelligence —— From Search to Question Answering

After more than 20 years of development, search engine is one of the most common tools for users to obtain information. Gradually along with the development of The Times, the input form diversification, the answer in the form of information has become increasingly rich, the depth of the artificial intelligence and big data involved, search engines also ushered in its transformation, from the previous user input text, search engine by means of collecting information for user query results computed text matching, to the user input text, voice or even picture now, recommended to the user directly by machine intelligence to understand after the most satisfactory results and answer. Search has evolved from a text query to a large comprehensive intelligent search engine.

This keynote speech will focus on the scenario demand case of Sogou search. From the analysis of user's question intention to the accurate answer, and how the answer can be obtained more efficiently by users because of the help of design; Then, it expands to the practical application of artificial intelligence in several vertical fields, such as image recognition case and photo shopping case, and introduces how the technology, algorithm and experience design behind it are closely combined to make the way for users to obtain information more convenient and fast.