Re: Introducing myself
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Please note hyperlink in my previous post should not have the final period - should be http://nzm.dig.bris.ac.uk Chris --- In [email protected], "chris_mcmahon2003 <enscam@b...>" <enscam@b...> wrote: > I am very interested to read the discussion in this group. Thank you > to Phil for the link from the kmconnection page. I am writing to > introduce myself. > > I am an engineering academic at the University of Bath in the UK, > having recently moved from the University of Bristol. My research > interests for some years have been in engineering information > organisation, particularly for engineering design. I am especially > interested in organisation of the unstructured information that > designers use in the course of their work. Our research brought us > to classification of documents into multiple nodes in hierarchies > with dynamic updating of the classification display based on user > selection (we first used dynamic updating about 10 years ago, but at > that time with selectable attributes rather than hierarchically > decomposed nodes). We built a software demonstrator that is still > running at Bristol at http://nzm.dig.bris.ac.uk. There are three > demonstrations at this site advertisements for cars, legislation > from the UK parliament and papers from an academic conference > (confidentiality with our collaborators prevents use of engineering > examples). Our classification approach is not very "pure" in faceted > classification terms (although the second hand car database is the > closest), but I hope the demonstrators show that the software could > be used for faceted classification. Since doing the work we are > finding out a good deal about faceted classification, thanks in no > small part to this community here! Classification in our systems is > done using classification rules with a home-grown classification > engine. We are currently working on further exploitation of the > approach in engineering and other information organisation > applications. > > Chris McMahon ---------- Thanks for playing. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/