Abstract: Abstract We speak of products in two senses: in one, we speak of types of products, in the other we speak of the particular objects that are instances of those types. I argue that types of products have the same ontological status as that of material stuffs, like water and gold, which have a non-particular level of existence. I also argue that the relationship between types of products and their instances is logically similar to the relation of constitution, which holds between, say, gold and a ring made of gold. In my approach, types of products are concrete entities, having spatiotemporal properties. This picture fits our commonplace conception of types of products better than alternative approaches according to which types of products are universal, abstract, or mereological entities.
Abstract: We study common query intentions in a software developer network with more than one million users. Based on a large query log analysis we could identify typical search intentions and identify common entities. For resolving most frequent query intentions and to identify entities and relationships from relevant pages we recommend state-of-the-art information extraction technologies.
