[Sigia-l] Findability

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Boniface Lau
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| IMO, hand-crafted categorization is just too expensive and is
| heading towards extinction!

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

My experience is that this can work pretty well. It also seems that
the more strongly structured the categorisation is, the better a job
the analytical tools will do. (That is, those that actually accept
input in the form of name catalogs and suchlike. For the others it
obviously makes no difference whatsoever.)
 
| 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.

Very, very true. There are heaps of techniques, and any particular
solution represents a compromise imposed by architectural, social,
economical, historical, and organizational constraints.

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