Re: Expert scoffs at Autonomy software

Yes she used the word 'aboutness' in anger. English as she is spoke indeed.

If you wish comments on the opinions she holds from qualified people I suggest you try a newsgroup dedicated to search technologies not to the Oracle RDBMS.

"CorporateInfo" <TelegraphHillSF_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:444ff1cb.0108232038.3ccaa5b9_at_posting.google.com...
> At Genentech headquarters today in South San Francisco, there was a
> seminar on "Metadata & Controlled Vocabularies: What Are they and What
> is their Value?" given by Amy Warner, faculty member in Information
> Architecture at UMichigan, Genentech's consultant on taxonomy creation
> and a well-known corporate consultant on information technology. Dr.
> Warner had a final slide with "Autonomy"and "Semio" written on it, and
> here's what she said:
>
> "I always get asked, aren't there automated tools to build
> taxonomies? There is some 'Hiearchy Generation Software' available,
> but it generally relies on the principal of Collocation, not
> aboutness, which is preferable. Collocation simply means statistical
> clustering. Two examples are Autonomy and Semio. Beware of these.
> They don't work very well. They make many promises, but Collocation
> only works some of the time. I shouldn't bash, but I haven't talked
> to a company yet that likes Autonomy, including those that have bought
> it. In many cases they are overselling their product."
>
> Any reaction?
Received on Fri Aug 24 2001 - 07:14:28 CDT