DISCOUNT on Text Analytics Summit, June 22-23, 2006
Last year I blogged glowingly about the first annual Text Mining Summit. Now it’s time for the second annual conference, with the name changed to Text Analytics Summit. It is in Boston (next to the Prudential Center/Hynes Auditorium complex) on June 22-23, 2006. From the descriptions*, it sounds a lot like last year’s, with the same high-level industry attendance. Indeed, in many cases there will be exactly the same high-level industry speakers …
*Unlike last year, I wasn’t involved in the planning, and am not going to be a speaker.
Anyhow, I plan to be there. Even better, I am empowered to offer a discount to anybody else who cares to attend. I am told that if you register online, there will be a discount box, and if you enter “CAM” you will receive a $100 reduction in your registration fee.
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Four (at least) issues in text and taxonomy federation
For any issue in text analytics, there are a lot of smart people who understand it very well (and, in particular, better than I do). But I suspect that even many of the discipline’s better thinkers have failed to grasp just what will be involved in taking text analytic technologies to the next level of usefulness and adoption. One example is what I see as the requirements for an ontology management system; I’m not aware of anybody else right now who has as expansive a view of this as I do. In this post, I’m going to address another issue whose complexity is in my opinion under-appreciated – federation. More specifically, I’ll argue that the various aspects of the federation task are a big part of what makes ontology management so complex.
The thing is – there are at least four different senses of “federation” in the text sphere, all of them important, most of them still technically unsolved. Namely:
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That great linguist, Groucho Marx, and other stories
If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably familiar with a saying that illustrates some of the basic challenges of disambiguation:
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
But did you know who said it first? I didn’t until recently. Read more