Archive for November, 2008
Information sharing
Information sharing – between organisations and systems – is one of the hardest nuts to crack. Yet it is one of the most pressing priorities, particularly in areas relating to government and the health of our society. Part of the solution is provided by information standards.
Two examples have arisen in the last couple of days. [...]
Taxonomy trends
Google Trends tells us the sad news that taxonomy, ontology, metadata and tagging all enjoyed a peak of search attention in 2004, and have been in slow decline ever since.
For the chart, click here.
At the same time, usage of the terms in news stories has increased, and is now at a peak.
What’s going on here?
At [...]
Text classification 1
Text classification is top of mind, after the recent completion of a big classifier build – 550 or so categories in 3 languages. (Note to self – categorize this blog!)
So there will be a few posts on this topic, beginning with the choice of technology. Statistical? Or linguistic? (rule based).
I will confess to a bias. [...]
Google’s “forgotten attachment detector”
We all forget attachments.
Now Google is automating this failing our of our lives.
I love that.
In 1999 it could have been a start up.
When my mind changes, I change the facts.
I am hardly qualified to add to the deluge of commentary on the financial crisis. But given that the qualified led us to this pass, I will plunge in regardless.
Supposedly, the crisis was caused by a lack of information. Or perhaps by a misinterpretation of information. It does astonish me that this perspective of the [...]