[FRIAM] Carrot Clustering Engine

[George Duncan]

Try http://vivisimo.com/ for their clusty search engine.

On 12/17/06, Marcus G. Daniels <mgd at santafe.edu> wrote:
>
> Owen Densmore wrote:
>
> >The next big thing?
> >
> >
> 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".
>
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George T. Duncan
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Heinz School of Public Policy and Management
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