Words Can Be a Lifelong Career
A 76-year old lexicographer continues working with his passion of the English language and all the intricacies that come along with it. He compiles […]
Making Better Use of Data
Pre-processing and indexing data in one operation with the new add-on for Splunk creates new performance and ergonomic value for users. This interesting information came […]
To Cap or Not to Cap?
Every once in a while, the issue of capitalization in taxonomies and thesauri pops up. Some of us in taxonomy land believe that it does make a difference what capitalization (versus lower case) style you use. We just don’t necessarily agree what that style should be.
Font Awareness
Shelf Awareness is a Web-based resource for readers and those in the book trade. It was brought my attention by Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness’s book review editor. (Full disclosure, Marilyn is my cousin.) I bring this wonderful resource to your attention for a variety of reasons not the least of which is their free email newsletter service for readers and one for professionals in the book trade. Twice a week I get an email containing reviews of a wide variety of new, recent, and sometimes classic, fiction and nonfiction works.
You Cannot Classify Unless You Connect
October 4, 2010 — One of the facts of classification and indexing is that one has to have access to the content. Most users […]
Microsoft and Its Taxonomy of Intents
July 19, 2010 — Xiaosin Yin and Sarthak Shah wrote a paper published in April 2010, “Building Taxonomy of Web Search Intents for Name […]
Yahoo and Popularity Driven News
July 6, 2010 — Access Innovations, the sponsor of this post, is in the indexing and classification business. Humans have grouped events, people, and information […]
Semantic Taxonomy Induction
“Semantic Taxonomy Induction from Heterogeneous Evidence” became available in 2006. It was one of the first presentations of a method that is apparently becoming increasingly important at a certain large Web search company.
World Congress 2011 Focuses on Data Mining and Machine Learning
World Congress 2011 - The Frontiers in Intelligent Data and Signal Analysis looks at data mining in this age of data overload.
Indexing: Chopping Logic
June 4, 2010 – The Nieman Journalism Lab’s “Aggregators, Curators, and Indexers: There’s a Difference and It Matters” makes a great deal of sense. […]