[Sigia-l] Integrated online thesauri

[Marcel van Mackelenbergh]

Wow, I find it rather disturbing you did not get any reactions on this one
yet.

I use Infolution here (www.infolution.ws) It does automatic classification.
It corrects typos finds the stem and creates two thesauri: one at the word
level, one at the phrase level. These 4 files are RDF. What's most important
is, it allows you to correct these files and it will use these corrections
in its next classification round. I understand it will be shipped with the
Classifier soon. The Classifier allows you to train subjects. Also ask for
the SDK which allows you to do fantastic queries on its database.

Also the price is nice: you get one server for € 1000 (approx. $1200). 

Definitely something you should look into. When you give me a call I can
open up my web server to allow you to do some testing. I am out this week
though.

Cheers,

Marcel

Marcel van Mackelenbergh
+31 73 522 3022
info at marcelvanmackelenbergh.nl 
http://www.marcelvanmackelenbergh.nl 


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Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 6:39 AM
To: Sigia-L; Indexer's Discussion Group
Subject: [Sigia-l] Integrated online thesauri

While people seem to recognise the value of information retrieval
thesauri in websites and intranets, few seem to use them to their full
extent, especially making them explicitly available to users. Eg, when
results of a search are provided the thesaurus context (BT, NT, RT) of
the search term is also provided, so that users can refine their search
using the other thesaurus terms. 

Has anyone worked on intranets or websites in which the thesaurus was
displayed to users? What software did you use? Did it need extra
programming? 

I find that while programs such as Microsoft SharePoint and Ultraseek
say they integrate thesauri they don't seem to go beyond simple synonym
expansion. 

Thanks,

Glenda.

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