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Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc. Dr. Gerold Belonogov, Professor and Head of Department, VINITI, Moscow, Russia Dr. Boris Kuznetsov, Head of Department, VINITI, Moscow, Russia Richard Hainebach, Director, EPMS bv-Ellis Publications, The Netherlands Note: This Working Paper was presented at the 1997 American Association for Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium Series, March 24 –…
Read MoreOWL Export Module: Data Harmony for the Semantic Web
by Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO of Access Innovations, Inc. Access Innovations, Inc.What do you make of “198“? You could assume a number. Computer applications make no assumptions since it could be an integer, octal, decimal, etc. Neither you nor the computer could do anything useful with it. What if, we added a period, so…
Read MoreWhat Can You Do with XML Today?
by Jay Ven Eman Interest in Extensible Markup Language (XML) rivals the press coverage the World Wide Web received at the turn of the Millennium. Is it justified? Rather than answer directly, let us take a brief survey of what XML is and why it was developed, and then we can highlight some current XML…
Read MoreBest Practices for Creating and Maintaining a Thesaurus with Thesaurus Master or MAIstro
by Barbara Gilles, Access Innovations thesaurian Observing the practices described below for building a thesaurus will help ensure: Effective searches to enable actual retrieval A rich and functional network of relationships among terms A standards-compliant thesaurus and taxonomy Efficient development of a controlled vocabulary that meets users’ needs 1. Background: The Building Blocks of a…
Read MoreSaving Time and Money with a Rule Based Approach to Automatic Indexing
Getting a Higher Return on Your Investment by Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc. There are two major types of automatic categorization systems. These two types of systems are known by many different names. However, the information science theory behind them boils down to two major schools of thought: rule based and statistics based.…
Read MoreAutomatic Indexing: A Matter of Degree
by Marjorie M.K. Hlava October 2002 First published in the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 29 No. 1, October/November 2002. Table of Contents Definitions What Systems Are There? How Should They Be Applied? What Are the Strengths and Weaknesses? How Do We Know If They Really Work? How Expensive…
Read MoreThe Notation Module in Thesaurus Design: An innovative view of Thesaurus Hierarchies
by Scott Denning Traditional thesaurus design has necessarily been a matter of alphabetization of the terms. While different views – permuted, hierarchical, rotated – offer different insights into the relationships of the terms in the thesaurus, the structure within these views is still ultimately alphabetical. Though alphabetization is at the core of organization in language,…
Read MoreHowlers: New Automation and Human Models Challenge Traditional Indexing
by John Blossom reprinted from www.shore.com/commentary The National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) is an interesting collection of institutions and publishers joining to tackle issues in aggregating content through indexing, abstracts and leading content technologies. While there are certainly a good number of indexing experts in this set there are also many executives…
Read MoreThe Search for Machine-Aided Indexing: Why a Rule-Based System is the Cost-Effective Choice
by Larry Compton Executive summary Data Harmony is one of several companies that offer machine-aided indexing software solutions to indexing and categorizing unstructured data. Data Harmony’s Machine Aided Indexer™ is a rule-based system, whereas most of our competitors use methods that are a combination of linguistic or statistical approaches to indexing data. Many of our…
Read MoreAutomatic Indexing Return on Investment (ROI)
A Case Study Comparison of Rule Base and Statistical Approaches by Marjorie M.K. Hlava There is a lot of confusion in the marketplace. Word is out that rule bases take a lot of up front investment. Concurrence systems advertise a purely programmatic solution and appeal to many IT professionals. What is the real up front…
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