Conceptual and Contextual Media Filtering

Stanley Rice (autospec@cruzio.com)
Mon, 22 Jan 96 12:45:09 PST

Friend,
You are interested in conceptual media filtering.
You may find timely a radical approach, based in language.
The focus of a new and utilitarian homepage is the book
"THEMATICS: CONCEPTUAL ACCESS TO TEXT AND MEDIA". The URL is:

http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/

Some topics:
- SIGs are the primary basis for conceptual filtering.
- "Relevance" is crucial, and never objective to us.
- Classifiction depends on negation, which is not obvious.
- Fuzzy filtering has a big potential, and is not difficult.
- Precision increases the recognition of global fuzziness.
- Verbal variables, SIG "pidgins" and meta-attributes are handy.
- Conceptual profile filtering is the future of marketing.
- Thematic core vocabularies can enable conceptual filtering
by untrained people, and by automated agents.

Reactions will be welcome.
Happy new year! Stan Rice (autospec@cruzio.com)

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