On May 11, 2008, the company unveiled a tool for searching a fixed subset of Wikipedia using conversational phrases rather than keywords.
The natural language processing part of Bing (Powerset) is based on Wikipedia data (scrapping the content), but they had a prototype based on Freebase too:
On April 16, 2008: "Powerset demonstrated our integration to Freebase. At one point, a group stood in front of the projected computer and threw out queries to see all of the different Freebase types that Powerset could handle." (source: https://web.archive.org/web/20080430113649/http://blog.power... )
On May 11, 2008, the company unveiled a tool for searching a fixed subset of Wikipedia using conversational phrases rather than keywords.
The natural language processing part of Bing (Powerset) is based on Wikipedia data (scrapping the content), but they had a prototype based on Freebase too:
On April 16, 2008: "Powerset demonstrated our integration to Freebase. At one point, a group stood in front of the projected computer and threw out queries to see all of the different Freebase types that Powerset could handle." (source: https://web.archive.org/web/20080430113649/http://blog.power... )