Unstructured Information Management

Mack, R., Mukherjea, S., Soffer, A., Uramoto, N., Brown, E., Coden, A., Cooper, J., Inokuchi, A., Iyer, B., Mass, Y., Matsuzawa, H., and Subramaniam, L.V. 2004. Text analytics for life science using the Unstructured Information Management Architecture. 

Chance When faced with repairing this floor, you feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of unstructured information. There is no transparency in the market. But if you cannot form your own opinion, you are dependent on people you trust, or else you are at the mercy of chance, e g. whatever colourful brochures the postman happens to deliver to your desk. Nobody tells you that there are only a small number of floor applicators that have been on the market for more than ten years. Specialist firms come and go if they are not well managed, or if they are unlucky... 

A URS is easy to criticize, but to write it is much more difficult than is often believed. The first draft of the document is inevitably unstructured as authors tend to include information in the order it comes to mind. The creation of a standard format helps, but most authors still customize the layout to reflect their own particular viewpoints. Project managers must accept and plan for rearranging the URS so that a more readable and useful document evolves. Revisions to the URS must be subject to version control so that the project team is kept abreast of updates. 

Communication, a key element in the teaching/leaming process, has as its disposal today new means in the form of modem techniques for the management and search of information linearly or sequentially unstructured and transported through text, image and sound. These new means seem to us pedagogically promising. 

Embley, D.W., Campbell, D.M., Smith, R.D., Liddle, S.W., 1998. Ontology-Based Extraction and Structuring of Information from Data-Rich Unstructured Documents. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management., New York ACM Press, 52-59. 

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