The Information Ecosystem I like to think of information systems as ecosystems in which technology, people, and processes interact in a (hopefully) symbiotic relationship. In such an ecosystem, information is…
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Graphite KOS 2.0 What’s more exciting than fixing bugs in a pending software release? Releasing the software (and, hopefully, releasing it bug free)! Coming soon is Graphite 2.0, the same…
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Knowledge Management I recently attended and spoke at the KMI Showcase in Arlington, Virginia. There were a variety of topics, but two seemingly opposed themes struck me as I listened…
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The Definition of Success Coming up with a definition for a term should be easy, right? If in doubt, consult a dictionary and the definition is available. In the age…
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Getting Started Getting started in text analytics can be challenging. The amount of unstructured content in most organizations is overwhelming and usually poorly organized and understood. Attempting to analyze all…
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Special Characters I grew up in central Michigan. When I moved to the Southeast, I learned the word “character” had a very special meaning when applied to people. Someone described…
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What Is a Homograph? What is a synonym for thesaurus? You may have heard this question floating around as a social media meme or at a conference for taxonomists. Interestingly,…
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Text Analytics Forum This year’s Text Analytics Forum was one of five conferences at the 2018 KMWorld in Washington, D.C. Over the course of two days, a wide variety of…
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Bias in the Machine Let’s say you upload a photo of yourself and the software automatically tags your face as a gorilla. Your first reaction might be you find this…
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Unstructured Data There’s much written about unstructured data and how it is notoriously over-generated and underutilized. What is unstructured data? Wikipedia provides the following definition: Unstructured data (or unstructured information)…
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