As we talk more about evolving search concepts these days, is Google simply greasing the wheels in an effort to get schools on board with their Google Print idea? I have to question this as they continue to throw money around…

Rada Mihalcea, a University of North Texas assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received a grant of $107,112 from Google to support her research in information retrieval through her research project titled “Finding Important Information in Unstructured Text: Algorithms for Keyphrase and Sentence Extraction.” Mihalcea is working on automatic methods for extracting important information from books stored in electronic format. This could take the form of back-of-the-book indexes or succinct summaries, and could eventually lead to better ways of accessing the information in the books. [Read the rest]

[tags]assistant professor,computer science,sentence extraction,algorithms[/tags]