[FRIAM] Carrot Clustering Engine

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Owen Densmore wrote:

>The next big thing?
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These programs perform statistical characterization of content, with no 
logical processing of verbs or nouns nor a model of the author 
intentions.  No doubt there are situations where the clustering can be 
useful for making search more efficient, but, come on, it's just a 
matter of time until Google overshadows such technology.

I find I have more trouble with web searches finding interesting results 
at all than wading through some irrelvant or unclustered info.  I'm 
happy to filter through a few pages of results if there is a payoff.  
The answers to more complex questions often aren't available in literal 
form from just a simple vector of words, they require generalization, 
extrapolation and careful qualification of *conceptually* related work.

Instead, imagine a computerized reader that can tell a decision maker 
"this argument appears to be bogus on available evidence", or a 
researcher "this paper demonstrates a novel idea".