A view from AltaVista: Contextual Filtering

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Fresh Spring Greetings ;-)

AltaVista is a fantastic search engine. A perfect partner
to extend the promises of AltaVista is Autospec Thematics.
And they are both FREE! We're not selling anything, honest.
We are giving away keys to "relevance" to see what happens.
Relevance is not objective to us. It is knowledge related to
purpose and dependent on fuzzy context. Those are the keys.

Treating attributes, entities and categories as crisp and/or
objective seems still to pervade information handling, even
if not explicitly - contrary to psycho-linguistic research
and common sense. (The "objectivist fallacy" in language is
well-recognized, a la Lakoff.) We all EXPERIENCE "relevance"
as mainly subjective and fuzzy. AltaVista gives us a great
new filtering tool. 'Thematics' sharpens it and uses it.

CONTEXTUAL AND CONCEPTUAL FUZZY FILTERING are considered in:

http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/ (green-green grass of home)
http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/quikstar.htm (quick-start)
http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/testpg.htm (AltaVista views)
http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/xmatches.htm (romance+sales)

Try AltaVista search: http://www.altavista.digital.com

Look for: AUTospec Or: +FUZzy +PIDgin (and watch the caps!)
Just two keys to finding relevance in 30-40 million pages.
Yes, principles of Thematics are simple. Really smart folks
may even consider them too simple! Is the sky blue?

There must be a lot more people interested in fuzzy contexts
than we know about here. Any help in contacting such people
and their work will be much appreciated.

"Tomorrow to fresh fields and pastures new!" -Milton ;-)
Reactions are appreciated.

Sincerely, Stan Rice

THEMATICS: Conceptual & Marketing Access to Text and Media
AUTOSPEC, Inc. Santa Cruz, CA. Stan Rice Voice: (408) 457-1430
Home page for Autospec: http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/