{"id":1324,"date":"2011-10-27T16:37:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2011-10-27T22:45:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T21:45:56","slug":"meaning-based-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2011\/10\/meaning-based-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning-based computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This session by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internet-librarian.com\/2011\/speakers.php?speaker=TerenceHuwe\">Terence Huwe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is meaning-based computing? (MBC)<\/p>\n<p>Importance of forecasting probability &#8211; &#8216;how should we modify our beliefs in the light of new information&#8221; &#8211; see &#8220;The Theory that would not Die&#8221; Sharon Bertsch McGrayne (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/11186931\">http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/11186931<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Based on Bayesian analysis.<\/p>\n<p>What are the applications and potential uses of meaning based computing?\u00a0Used for code breaking, handwriting and speech analysis etc. Approach commercialised by Michael Lynch &#8211; in the form of Autonomy (now acquired by Hewlett-Packard) &#8211; applied to &#8216;enterprise search&#8217;. 80% of a firm&#8217;s info assets are unstructured and thus hard to retrieve conventionally.<\/p>\n<p>Two events furthered the growth of MBC &#8211; in 2007 the US federal rules of civil procedure made all data forms admissible for litigation &#8211; seen in the Enron case. The explosion in social media has created new challenges for firms &#8211; meaning they need to track huge amounts of unstructured information.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; enterprise search is booming &#8211; MBC thrives in commercial and pure research settings. Autonomy&#8217;s MBC-based tools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Implistic Query &#8211; hotkey to related information without leaving a primary task<\/li>\n<li>Hyperlinking &#8211; live links, diverse sources<\/li>\n<li>Smart or Active Folders<\/li>\n<li>Automatic Taxonomy Generation<\/li>\n<li>Sentiment Analysis<\/li>\n<li>Automatic clustering of all data types<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>What is the impact on Information professions?<\/div>\n<div>Starting to see some &#8216;seeping&#8217; from enterprise search world:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;meaning based healthcare&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Universities use it at the enterprise level<\/li>\n<li>Consulting<\/li>\n<li>Telecommunications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>One clear example of use in library domain is ACM use it for search of their digital publications.<\/div>\n<div>Potential applications:<\/div>\n<div>Turbo-charged meta-search<\/div>\n<div>Effective search of unstructured data<\/div>\n<div>Establish relationships between structured data (libraries etc.) and unstructured data<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Taxonomy and MCB solutions might co-exist &#8211; why? Because MBC can manage social media categorization as an automated process. For this to happen, (library) developers need to get involved.<\/div>\n<div>Pattern recognition is practiced at the reference desk &#8211; MBC proves that it is a high-level skill. More machine assistance going to be a good thing &#8211; we (information professionals) need to find a place at the table.<\/div>\n<div>Forecasts:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Academic-based digital library developers may take an interest<\/li>\n<li>Vendors might explore MBC as a meta-search tool<\/li>\n<li>Repositories may get a boost<\/li>\n<li>The practice of reference librarianship would benefit from this kind of tool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Conclusions<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Need to be aware of MCB<\/li>\n<li>Should analyse it&#8217;s, as yet unknown, potential for search and discovery within our digital libraries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This session by\u00a0Terence Huwe What is meaning-based computing? (MBC) Importance of forecasting probability &#8211; &#8216;how should we modify our beliefs in the light of new information&#8221; &#8211; see &#8220;The Theory that would not Die&#8221; Sharon Bertsch McGrayne (http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/11186931) Based on Bayesian analysis. What are the applications and potential uses of meaning based computing?\u00a0Used for code [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ili2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}