April 23, 2003
etcon:2003:day2:semantic indexing

no metadata - no problem
its possible to infer semantic relationshiops form docujent content
patterns of workd use reflect highter level concepts
this is dumb math masquerading as smart maths

a case study - steven johnson notes
stecen had a flat-file collection of 1146 paragraph length clippings from 15 books
there are typed in by an assistant with no keywords or cats assigned
eclectrive but coherent collection

127.0.0.1/~macie/etcon

this looks like the kinda stuff we see in metadata automation generation - semantic search engines

relecance feedback

latent semantic indexing -

the phrase "a chilling effect" is used a lot - refers to patents, copyright etc.

contextual network graphs -

sharing searches -
opencola.com -
lazyweb

valley of the shadow archive uni virginia

NITLE represents a consortium of liberal arts colleges.
www.nitle.org
www.nitle.org/semantic_search.php
www.nitle.org/etcon

waypath.com

distributed search

Posted by paula at April 23, 2003 10:55 PM