Categorization

Categorization is the process through which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, classified, and understood.

Automatic categorization is technology designed to control the flood of unstructured, non-indexed, and unorganized digital content that threatens to swamp knowledge workers in corporations and government.

Auto-categorization software tools provide the means to categorize digital content according to predefined taxonomies, to extract concepts and entities for the development of taxonomies and to tag content with subject-related metadata tags.

Aug 15

Content-Aware Knowledge Graphs

By Sarah Downs Categorization, Knowledge Graphs, Taxonomy Management

This article was originally published in the MESA M + E Journal Spring 2024. Abstract: Many organizations invest significant resources in tagging their content, with varying results for accuracy and…

Nov 29

Breakthrough Moments in Enterprise Taxonomy Management

By Jim Sweeney Categorization, Graphite Knowledge Studio, Taxonomy, Taxonomy Management

Earlier this month at KMWorld in Washington DC I got to meet many of Synaptica’s clients, technology partners, as well as some new faces from the community. It’s always a…

Sep 05

Graphite Knowledge Studio: Putting Taxonomists in the Driver’s Seat

By Sarah Downs Categorization, Graphite Knowledge Studio, Taxonomy, Text Analytics

Please note that as of 2025 Graphite Knowledge Studio has been deprecated and replaced with Squirro's AI Studio.I grew up in a small town in Connecticut where you needed to…

Sep 02

On Granularity

By Bob Kasenchak Categorization, Taxonomy

In taxonomy, granularity refers to the number of terms describing a concept and its sub-concepts. This rubric can apply to an entire vocabulary or some subset. In short, the question…

Dec 23

It Is What It Is

By Ahren Lehnert Categorization, Ontology, Taxonomy

It Is What It Is As a taxonomist, when I hear the expression “it is what it is,” I’m tempted to define the subject (“it”) of this statement as categorically clear. It is what…

Sep 03

Creating Training Sets for Taxonomy-Based Auto-Categorization

By Ahren Lehnert Categorization, Text Analytics

What Are Training Sets? Text analytics and auto-categorization software doesn’t simply work out of the box. It requires attention and training. It is possible to install a taxonomy-based auto-categorizer and…

Aug 15

Naming the Edges, or: Why Knowledge Graphs? Part 1

By Bob Kasenchak Categorization, Knowledge Graphs, Knowledge Management

Taxonomy is easy. You have a list of concepts, terms and you put this under that. Often, even if not completely explicit, the reason for putting this “under” that is…

Mar 28

Concept Consensus

By Ahren Lehnert Categorization, Ontology

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…

Feb 25

Getting Started with Text Analytics

By Ahren Lehnert Categorization, Ontology, Text Analytics

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…

Jan 22

The Content of Our Characters