Posted by Denham on June 29, 1999 at 18:34:03:

In Reply to: Re: KM & Notes posted by Laurence Smith on June 28, 1999 at 11:28:42:

Hi Laurence,

Autonomy, Beehive, Semio, Cartia and PC Docs / Fulcrum and to a lessor extent Verity, RetrievalWare, Dataware II, LexiQuest and Verge Insight are all positioned in this crowded niche somewhere between information retrieval and linguistic pattern discovery.

I like Autonomy for its seemless integration of automated hyperlinking, profiling and push, if you can live with the price tag. If you wish to focus on the text mining, I belive you will find Cartia to be more flexible, but you will have to be more hands on in terms of fine tuning the parameters. Semio does a good job with display and seems to have a slight edge with categorization. I have not had chance to compare all these tools on the same piece of text so it is difficult to judge.

Let's return to your needs! Do you wish to be alerted in real time to what is already in existance? do you wish to link to people or content?, Do you wish to have a efficient summary and index of your documents in your various repositories? are you looking for a neat navigation chart to burried gems?, do you wish to be altered to 'interesting' newsfeeds or new entries?, do you wish to find all places where a certain (defined & known) idea / concept / term is used? I'm sure you will appreciate each of these has different tool requirements and then there is always a question of what formats will the tool handle? what effort and expense you wish to put into user training?

In spite of all the hype, I think you will find there is no magic here. You will get improved results over the long haul by balancing tools with cognitive practices & processes, e.g. building ontologies, mapping personal connections, making deliberate distinctions. One last word, if you can afford to wait, Microsoft has more linguists employed than all the other firms combined. Look to see their Site Server technology come along very quickly.

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