Taxonomy is easy. You have a list of concepts and you put this under that. Often, even if not completely explicit, the reason for putting this “under” that is intuitive:...
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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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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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The Knowns In my last blog, Exploring with Text Analytics, I discussed the knowns and unknowns which can be identified and explored through text analytics. In this blog, I’m going...
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OASIS from Synaptica is an exciting new way to unleash the information previously locked inside image content. OASIS stands for Open Annotation Semantic Imaging System. A vast amount of information…
This blog includes some useful thoughts related to Controlled Vocabularly. Examples of controlled vocabularies are lists, synonym rings, taxonomies, and thesauri. Controlled vocabularies provide a way to organize knowledge for subsequent…
Following on from our recent takeaways post we share further insights from the recent Taxonomy BootCamp event held in Washington DC. Joseph Busch of Project Performance Corporation (PPC) delivered a…
