Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

September 25, 2011

Artificial Intelligence Resources

Filed under: Artificial Intelligence,Indexing,Searching,Semantic Diversity,Topic Maps — Patrick Durusau @ 7:48 pm

Artificial Intelligence Resources

A collection of collections of resources on artificial intelligence. Useful but also illustrates a style of information delivery that has advantages over “search style foraging” and disadvantages as well.

It’s biggest advantage over “search style foraging” is that it presents a manageable listing of resources and not several thousand links. Even very dedicated researchers are unlikely to follow links > hundreds and even if you did, some of the material would be outdated by the time you reached it.

Another advantage is that one hopes (I haven’t tried all the links) that the resources have been vetted to some degree, with the superficial and purely advertising sites being filtered out. Results are more “hit” than “miss,” which with search results can be a very mixed bag.

But a manageable list is just that, manageable, the very link you need may have missed the cut-off point. Had to stop somewhere.

And you can’t know the author’s criteria for the listing. Their definition of “algorithm” may broader or narrower than your own.

In the days of professional indexes, researchers learned a sense for the categories used by indexing services. At least that was a smaller set than the vocabulary range of every author.

How would you use topic maps to bridge the gap between those two solutions?

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