[Sigia-l] Findability

[Eric Scheid]

On 1/27/03 5:03 PM, "Boniface Lau" <boniface_lau at compuserve.com> wrote:
> IMO, hand-crafted categorization is just too expensive and is
> heading towards extinction!

What about hand-machined categorisation, ie. using any number of text
analytics tools to do most of the heavy lifting/grinding?

Surely we know by now that there isn't simply two choices (fully
hand-crafted vs free-form text search), but instead a milieu of nuanced
tools, techniques, approaches, and processes that can be used. Synonym
lists, spelling error lists, best bets meta tagging, etc etc.

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