Semantic integration research could really benefit from semantic integration!
After years of using Steve Newcomb’s semantic impedance to describe identifying the same subject differently, I run across (another) name for that subject: vocabulary mismatch.
“Mismatch” covers a multitude of reasons, conditions and sins.
I encountered the term reading Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice by W. Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, and Trevor Strohman. More comments on this book to appear in future posts. For now, buy it!
A friend recently remarked that my posts cover a lot of territory. True but subject identity is a big topic.
The broader our reading/research, the better we will be able to assist users in developing solutions that work for them and their subjects.
It is always possible to narrow one’s research/reading for a particular project, but broader vistas await for those who seek them out.