Earlier this month at KMWorld in Washington DC I got to meet many of Synaptica’s clients, technology partners, as well as some new faces from the community. It’s always a…
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I grew up in a small town in Connecticut where you needed to drive "everywhere." There were no sidewalks in my neighborhood, no stores in easy walking distance, no public…
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In taxonomy, granularity refers to the number of terms describing a concept and its sub-concepts. This rubric can apply to an entire vocabulary or some subset. In short, the question…
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It Is What It Is As a taxonomist, when I hear the expression “it is what it is,” I’m tempted to define the subject (“it”) of this statement as categorically clear. It is what…
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What Are Training Sets? Text analytics and auto-categorization software doesn’t simply work out of the box. It requires attention and training. It is possible to install a taxonomy-based auto-categorizer and…
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Taxonomy is easy. You have a list of concepts, terms and you put this under that. Often, even if not completely explicit, the reason for putting this “under” that is…
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The Definition of Success Coming up with a definition for a term should be easy, right? If in doubt, consult a dictionary and the definition is available. In the age…
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Getting Started Getting started in text analytics can be challenging. The amount of unstructured content in most organizations is overwhelming and usually poorly organized and understood. Attempting to analyze all…
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Special Characters I grew up in central Michigan. When I moved to the Southeast, I learned the word “character” had a very special meaning when applied to people. Someone described…
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Bias in the Machine Let’s say you upload a photo of yourself and the software automatically tags your face as a gorilla. Your first reaction might be you find this…
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