What Is a Homograph? What is a synonym for thesaurus? You may have heard this question floating around as a social media meme or at a conference for taxonomists. Interestingly,...
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Synaptica talks with recognized taxonomist, blogger and author of The Accidental Taxonomist (Information Today) Heather Hedden. Heather works with Gale/Cengage Learning as a Senior Vocabulary editor and lives in Carlisle,…
We recently noted what for us was a thought-provoking detail when comparing Gartner’s “Hype Cycles” from 2016 to 2017. There are undoubtedly lots of very perceptive observations on trends and…
Organizational Placement In my last blog, I discussed what a text analyst does and what types of individuals may fill a text analyst role. In this blog, I’ll try to...
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What Is the Long Tail? The long tail of search is a concept typically used in retail and search engine marketing represented by a graph detailing the distribution of search...
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Time to address the junk drawer. If you’re anything like me, you have a junk drawer somewhere in your home. Regardless of how neat and organized you may be, you...
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One of the primary motivations for performing text analytics is to determine the aboutness of a document or sets of documents (a corpus). While we are no doubt familiar with...
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The iSchool at San José State University presents a Silicon Valley Success Story The goal of the project was to help Silicon Valley Startup Redlink develop a new taxonomy of…
It’s that time of year, folks, when it seems like everyone is publishing some kind of year end list or “round up” of the years news highlights, blogs and blog…
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…
