[Sigia-l] Product for "automated information qualification"?!

[Locatelli at aol.com]

The most important thing to note about this tool is the information at the bottom of the home page: "iq-server contains a range of freely definable determinants, such as synonyms, antonyms, abbreviations, terminology or translations. The client provides the content of these thesauri. The iq-server then structures and adapts them to suit individual requirements."

Translation: you have to do the hard intellectual work of defining parent/child relationships, related terms, and variant terms by constructing thesauri. Then we will run it through our various algorithms so we can do the fuzzy logic part. The process still requires significant intellectual effort from human brains in constructing the thesauri.

It's another example of a tool making great claims and then glossing over the need for human input.

Fred Leise
Information Architect/Metadata Architect
ContextualAnalysis, LLC
www.contextualanalysis.com