Scott Warren schrieb:
> Having good search results for known */sets/* rather than known items
> means good, rational collocation of the items returned for that set.
> This is a must for a catalog and something that I think Amazon is rather
> poor at.
and G. BookSearch even poorer. They must be hard at work re-inventing a
few things... to get it righter, for sure.
> And a known set of items should be more than just the set of
> documents that contain a given alphanumeric string,
> ... [I'm alluding to controlled vocab here].
>
That's one of those things. Amazon *does* have controlled names and
titles, at least for classical music where without them any retrieval
system quickly runs out of control. For there, you often look for
recordings of works not knowing what new title the producer has
invented or what spelling of Tchaikovsky they have used (LC found 34
different ones, but there are more). Here, the "given alphabetic string"
is next to useless and artificial intelligence has a very hard time.
Regards, B. Eversberg
Received on Wed Jun 14 2006 - 06:48:28 EDT