[Sigia-l] User experience taxonomy

[Avi Rappoport]

At 2:06 PM -0400 8/7/02, Listera wrote:
>"David R. Austen" wrote:
>
>>  Any starting points for those of us who have not yet used such
>>  software? Proof of concept or demonstration of concept?
>
>I'm assuming there are personal-use search engines out there that serve the
>same function as, say, Atomz does for small websites. Where's Avi Rappoport
>when you need her? :-)

Sorry, not my department -- I have enough trouble keeping up with 
site & Intranet search engines.  There are a number of personal 
search engines on Windows, including dtSearch, but I don't know much 
about them (I use Sherlock on the Mac).

Some of them probably include categorization engines.  They should 
analyze all the text before categorizing: the more content, the more 
likely they are to get it right -- full text is better than abstracts 
is better than titles.  But remember, it's easy to get to 80%, but 
it's hard to avoid egregious mistakes in the last 20%.

Avi

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