- From: Nick Arnett <narnett@verity.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 08:01:44 -0800
- To: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, www-style@www10.w3.org, www-html@www10.w3.org
At 02:56 PM 1/13/97 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote: ... >Far simpler is to have >the author of the document insert an attribute. The thought of Alta Vista >performing morphological analysis on each document per search, or the >browser performing it before starting to display, makes me shudder. I don't see why one should shudder -- this kind of software is quite fast these days. But I was saying that one shouldn't assume that the author will do this *by hand*, not that it would be done by a third party, automated or not. Given that automation isn't perfect, putting these tools in the authors' hands will result in greater accuracy -- and it distributes the task instead of requiring the servers to do it. Of course the tagging should have the same syntax no matter who does it; we all should be fans of interoperability between humans and computers. Nick --------------------------------------- Verity Inc. Connecting People with Information Product Manager, Categorization and Visualization 408-542-2164; home office 408-369-1233; fax 408-541-1600 http://www.verity.com
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