Re: Relevance ranking: was Aqua Brow

From: Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen_at_nyob>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:13:58 +1100
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Hi Julia,

On Jan 6, 2008 10:22 AM, Julia Bauder <julia.bauder_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> So can we possibly try moving this discussion towards the kinds of
> information that people actually search for and not for impossibly
> broad concepts like "cat"?

Indeed, however we were also talking about searching for the concept
of "dogs", but what seems to escape some people is that the concept of
"dogs" indeed is what popularity and consensus (try the etymology for
the word concept :) is all about *except* for the individual. No
system we ever create can do what conceptually makes sense to one
individual, we can only try to do it for the consensus.


Alex
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