As a consultant working in the TM space (also), I am often posed the Q about how is Text Mining different from what Google (intranet) search does. (Infact,...
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lowprofilestartup
lowprofilest...
Jul 7, 2008 7:38 pm
Hi Folks! My startup's looking for a few world-class gurus in search, NLP, etc., for a critical project starting right away. Any help finding the right folks...
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laura.eisenmann@...
laura.eisenmann
Jul 7, 2008 8:04 pm
I will be out of the office starting 07/04/2008 and will not return until 07/14/2008. I am on vacation. I will check email occasionally, but may not be able...
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Vadim Berman
vb_dutch
Jul 7, 2008 10:48 pm
Hi lowprofilestartup (sorry, no names here), I am running a small consultancy in Australia specializing in NLP, IR and MT (as in machine translation). Here's...
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William Hayes
william_s_hayes
Jul 8, 2008 11:13 am
1) Text search (TS) returns documents instead of targeted information 2) Google search doesn't understand entities (people, businesses, proteins, diseases,...
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Seth Grimes
sethgrimes
Jul 8, 2008 12:08 pm
William, thanks for the response. Original poster, perhaps there were no discussions on this perspective, of search supplanting text mining, at the recent Text...
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comahony
Jul 8, 2008 11:41 pm
Indeed. One way to think about it is... - Search interfaces and algorithms are good at finding a needle in a haystack. They are good when you want to find a...
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canchi121
Jul 9, 2008 6:35 am
Thanks for your responses. I would like to believe the distinction offered between TS and TM is probably what textbooks in late nineties had to say; if you...
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William Hayes
william_s_hayes
Jul 9, 2008 9:43 am
Thanks Conor for your response. That is a quick and easy visualization - will make a better elevator speech :)...
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Seth Grimes
sethgrimes
Jul 9, 2008 11:48 am
But... one of the arguments for text mining is that it's the technology that can help you find A (as opposed to THE) needle in a haystack, that is, when you...
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justice.chikomba@...
Jul 9, 2008 11:53 am
I kindly request that you stop sending me TextAnalytics mail. ________________________________ From: TextAnalytics@yahoogroups.com ...
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Seth Grimes
sethgrimes
Jul 9, 2008 12:41 pm
Folks who want to leave the list should send a message to TextAnalytics-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com ... -- Seth Grimes Alta Plana Corp, analytical computing...
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danastarprofessionals...
danastarprof...
Jul 11, 2008 12:09 am
DANASTAR Professional Services is looking for a full time developer to implement search tools and to build an Enterprise Search front end for one of our...
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Seth Grimes
sethgrimes
Jul 11, 2008 8:36 pm
I've been looking into speech analytics and audio mining. The following are what I've come up with by way of leading vendors, and then I have a second list of...
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Seth Grimes
sethgrimes
Jul 16, 2008 1:00 pm
... Business Intelligence Network The Vision for BI and Beyond ******************************************** The Business Intelligence Network Newsletter...
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Greg Holmberg
gcholmberg
Aug 5, 2008 1:21 am
In "The Problem with Unstructured Data" (DMReview, 2003, http:// www.dmreview.com/issues/20030201/6287-1.html ) Robert Blumberg and Shaku Atre state: Merrill...
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Ravi Shankar
ravishankar10c
Aug 5, 2008 4:57 am
I share the same feeling as greg. For all you know even if the report does exist, there is a good chance that the number was arrived at based on a survey of...
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Greg Holmberg
gcholmberg
Aug 5, 2008 6:10 pm
I emailed the author of this article, and here's what he said: From: "Robert Blumberg" <rblumberg at att dot net> To: "'Greg Holmberg'" Subject: RE: The...
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William Hayes
william_s_hayes
Aug 5, 2008 6:36 pm
Hi Greg, I remember searching for this as well and wound up using the Gartner reference but never found a rigorous study supporting the claim. I assumed at...
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Seth Grimes
sethgrimes
Aug 5, 2008 6:39 pm
At the time of the DM Review article, the citation was already at least 18 months old. Here's an August 2001 reference: ...
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Charles Patridge
charles_patr...
Aug 5, 2008 6:42 pm
To ALL, I, too, have quoted and used this figure of 80-85% of corporate info as being unstructured data. On a given number of clients (8), I was able to...
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Seth Grimes
sethgrimes
Aug 5, 2008 6:46 pm
There's a novel by Umberto Eco called Baudolino. Eco is a semiotician and linguist. The story meanders a lot without seeming to go anywhere except ...
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Curt Monash
camonash
Aug 5, 2008 6:50 pm
... Good finds on the history, Seth. And I agree with your point on the meaninglessness of the figure. I'm not sure I'd agree on structured vs. "unstructured"...
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eisai@...
eisaijmf
Aug 5, 2008 6:52 pm
Folks, There was a claim like this made in the November 16, 1998 Merrill Lynch report on Enterprise Information Portals. The report is a famous one that kicked...
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Seth Grimes
sethgrimes
Aug 5, 2008 7:01 pm
I found the 1998 M-L report... I think. It contains many references to "unstructured" info etc. and says "some estimates run as high as 80%." I'm going to blog...
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Seth Grimes
sethgrimes
Aug 5, 2008 7:12 pm
Sorry, I didn't include the link to the report. It's http://emarkets.grm.hia.no/gem/Topic7/eip_ind.pdf . Seth ... -- Seth Grimes Alta Plana Corp, analytical...
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rrifaieh
Aug 5, 2008 11:16 pm
When Predictive Analytics goes to Cloud: In an article published in the Communication of the ACM [1] in July 08, Brian Hayes, argues that the longstanding era...
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Dorai Thodla
dorait
Aug 5, 2008 11:47 pm
I heard (can't recall where) that there is more data held in spread sheets and documents on individual computers than on central databases and servers. Some of...
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mdehaaff
Aug 7, 2008 4:20 am
I have not been able to find the ML report either, however Philip Russom from TDWI wrote a great report "BI Search and Text Analytics" that contains similar...
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Seth Grimes
sethgrimes
Aug 7, 2008 6:30 pm
I thought list members would find this blog article interesting. I'm pasting in just the first paragraph because I can't paste in the hyperlinks -- ...
