Saturday, April 05, 2003

Auto-Categorization: Coming to a Library or Intranet Near You! "While it is much faster than a human categorizer and doesn't require vacation days and medical benefits, auto-categorization is still simply not as good as a human categorizer. It can't understand the subtleties of meaning like a human can, and it can't summarize like a human, because it doesn't understand things like implicit meaning in a document and because it doesn't bring the meaningful contexts that humans bring to the task of categorization. One thing that early AI efforts taught us is that while speed is significant, speed alone cannot make up for a lack of understanding of meaning..." 7:01:34 AM    comment []

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