[topicmapmail] Classification of occurrences using keywords

[Jason Cupp]

Well, I guess there are keywords and there are keywords, but maybe for topic
maps they're all roses...

I guess I wanted to pose the question: is there room in topic maps for
ambigious associations between any uncontrolled word found in a document and
that document (like free text searches on the web)? I work with the Z39.50
protocol, and can choose to do a completely free-text search or limit my
search to an abstact, keywords (made explicit by the author), publisher,
etc...

Is it practical for a topicmap to support the free-text search (make every
occurance of a word a topic scoped accordingly), or is it too "against the
grain"? I also think the "aboutness" association shouldn't always be a
second-class citizen, in that it definately isn't a nonsense proposition.


| -----Original Message-----
| From: Lars Marius Garshol [mailto:larsga@garshol.priv.no]
| Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:48 PM
| To: topicmapmail@infoloom.com
| Subject: Re: [topicmapmail] Classification of occurrences 
| using keywords
| 
| 
| 
| * Jason Cupp
| |
| | For unsupervised classification of a heterogeneous document
| | collection, the only reliable relationship to devine for keywords
| | would be the "aboutness" mentioned in "Lessons on Applying Topic
| | Maps" ( and for collections as broad and the WWW, even this fails )
| 
| Jason, you're making it impossible to have a meaningful dialogue
| here. When you say keyword above, what do you MEAN? What IS a
| "keyword" as you use the term? Without knowing that I have no idea
| what you are saying above.
| 
| (The title of the paper is "The XML Papers", by the way. "Lessons on
| applying topic maps" is just the subtitle.)
|  
| | What about representing both in a topicmap: the "aboutness"
| | association and (given standarized vocabularies & thesauri & PSIs)
| | more meaningful associations.
| 
| That sounds like what we did, but you're not being very precise, so
| it's hard to tell.
| 
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| Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian         <URL: http://www.ontopia.net >
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| http://www.garshol.priv.no >
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