[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: More on Vector Models
Actually, I believe we know pretty well the boundaries of what can be done with XML: data transport. It's a coffee cup: lots of shapes and styles but one basic topology. The subtleties are in applications. There can be lots of those and there are lots of semantics, but XML is blithely ignorant of those. A very high percentage of the discussions on this and other lists that talk about 'doing XML' are really about 'applying' XML. There are overlapping areas though that should get our attention. One of these is indexing and automated categorization. Vector models are pretty good at both. 1) There is a much larger set of unstructured information than marked-up information. Information Retrieval (IR) systems deal with that. Vector models come from that world. 2) Using humans to do markup on unstructured sources doesn't scale very well. 3) Applying vector analysis is one means to automate that. It is a well understood set of techniques, and one amenable to cheap CPUs, free rendering engines, and even SOA. So the twenty five dollar question: If you have the vector indices, do you need the markup? len From: David Lyon [mailto:david.lyon@c...] Getting the ideas and selling them is the easy part. Writing them is a little harder. Debugging them harder again. Production testing is time-consuming.
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