Library Cataloging
Subject Access
Auto-Categorization: Coming to a Library or Intranet Near You! by Tom Reamy.
Simply put, automatic-categorization is a new type of software that assigns documents into subject matter categories based on a wide variety of techniques. These techniques include statistical Bayesian analysis of the patterns of words in the document, clustering of sets of documents based on similarities, advanced vector machines that represent every word and its frequency with a vector, neural networks, sophisticated linguistic inferences, the use of pre-existing sets of categories, and seeding categories with keywords.
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Physics And Astronomy Classification Scheme
Some classification news.The 2008 edition of the AIP's Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS)--an essential tool for classification and efficient retrieval of scientific literature--has been released. PACS, used by AIP and other international...
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Dublin Core
A new version - 0.2(beta)- of Dublin Core Services/Describethis has been published. This new version, as main feature, brings us an automatic generator of keywords: DCS incorporates now a dictionary of 5300 words in 11 different languages, included Catalan,...
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Automatic Classification
Managing Content with Automatic Document Classification by Rafael A. Calvo, Jae-Moon Lee and Xiaobo Li appears in the latest Journal of Digital Information, vol. 5, no. 2.The paper describes how machine learning and automatic document classification techniques...
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Classification
Dynamic and hierarchical classification of Web pages by Ben Choi; Xiaogang Peng appears in Online Information Review (2004) v. 28, no. 2, pp. 139-147.Automatic classification of Web pages is an effective way to organise the vast amount of information...
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Movable Type
The folks using Movable Type have the ability to use categories, one reason I keep thinking of moving to that tool. Now the categories can have a hierarchical structure thanks to the plugin by Chad Everett. I find a tree structure is a handy way to move...
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