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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Text Analytics & Search Text analytics processes and outputs can be difficult to imagine when discussed rather than shown. Just how does one put text analytics into practice and how…
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Artificial Intelligence for the Business McKinsey & Company recently published “An executive’s guide to AI” in which they discuss the business use cases for Machine Learning and Deep Learning. The…
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The Knowns In my last blog, Exploring with Text Analytics, I discussed the knowns and unknowns which can be identified and explored through text analytics. In this blog, I’m going…
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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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The Knowledge Organization Every enterprise has an elite team of dedicated knowledge workers. Each member of that elite team is familiar with content creation, management, and retrieval best practices. There…
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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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