Re: OT - Learning

I'm sure they are formalized somewhere, as they are taught by library and
information science departments in universities. I've learned by doing and
by working with various editors, so I don't know the names of the various
techniques. Try Googling for "indexing" and "cataloging".

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)




Antsnio Mota <amsmota@xxxxxxxxx>
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Are those strategies somewhat "formalized"? Have they a name? I need
this not just for my own use but also to include in a "how-to" or
"lessons learned" presentation, so i want something with some "pomp",
as those kind of things tend to be better memorized.

For example, to explain some photo-related operations i've did in a
project, i said i used a low-pass filter *due to the Nyquist theorem*,
so i'm preety sure people will remember that...

On 10/21/05, JBryant@xxxxxxxxx <JBryant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have indexed quite a pile of books, so I can tell you some tricks that
> indexers use to make information visible and how to exploit them to find
> what you want.
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> The problem is that a reader wants to find something but doesn't know
the
> words used by the subject matter experts in that field (this happens
when
> readers approach a new field). So indexers often place synonyms with See
> references in the index. The other thing that indexers often do is
> scramble the word order of each important multi-word term. Thus, "Tuning
> the Deteronic Frombotzer" becomes "Tuning, Deteronic Frombotzer",
> "Deteronic Frombotzer, Tuning", and "Frombotzer, Deteronic, Tuning".
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> All of that means that two search strategies can reward someone
> researching a new (to that person) field: First, search for a broad
range
> of synonyms. Second, keep your search strings short, so as to maximize
the
> number of matches. Once you've gotten a few successes and have
discovered
> some of the terms in use in the new field, you can narrow your searches
> and have greater success at finding the bits you want.
>
> That assumes that the information you seek has been indexed somewhere
> visible to Google or some other search engine. Given that you are
looking
> for education-related terms, that's pretty likely, as educators (I used
to
> be one) are generally more mindful of such things than most folks.
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> Thanks for that, i had searched the wikipedia but didn't find that!
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> But let me try to put my question in another way, less related to
> learning and more to information searching.
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> When i don't find information the way i asked for it, what should i
> do? How do i refraze the question? Where and how to look if i have no
> clue to start with?
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> Are there some heuristcs that apply here?
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> Thanks again.
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> On 10/21/05, James Fuller <jim.fuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Antsnio Mota wrote:
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> > >I'm sorry for the OT, but i've spend two days searching the list
> > >archives and my personal mail archive and couldn't find what i'm
> > >looking for.
> > >
> > >
> > oddly enough I was looking for some formalisms related to learning a
few
> > days ago...
> >
> > >So can someone knows what is that theory, what's is name and author,
> > >or something related to?
> > >
> > >
> > dont know what specifically u were looking for...
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_theory_%28education%29
> >
> > found it to be a useful starting point.
> >
> > gl, JF