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…
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The Taxonomy Campaign It’s an election year, so what better way to talk about kicking off a successful taxonomy campaign in your organization than comparing it to a political campaign? After…
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In my last blog post I discussed the “rise of the knowledge graph” and hinted at why, in some situations, it’s useful to go beyond the standard thesaural relationships (BT,…
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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…
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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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Organizational Placement In my last blog, I discussed what a text analyst does and what types of individuals may fill a text analyst role. In this blog, I’ll try to…
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We are especially excited about an optional new feature in the new release of Synaptica KMS version 8.0 that can help to enrich your internal taxonomies by linking them to…
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What Is the Long Tail? The long tail of search is a concept typically used in retail and search engine marketing represented by a graph detailing the distribution of search…
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Time to address the junk drawer. If you’re anything like me, you have a junk drawer somewhere in your home. Regardless of how neat and organized you may be, you…
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One of the primary motivations for performing text analytics is to determine the aboutness of a document or sets of documents (a corpus). While we are no doubt familiar with…
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