[309] in Information Retrieval
Information Shootout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Owens)
Wed May 15 12:41:26 1996
To: dlicc@MIT.EDU, elibdev@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 12:40:54 EDT
From: Tom Owens <owens@MIT.EDU>
At
http://iris.cs.uml.edu:8080/
you can read about the "information shootout" which will pit several
different search engines against a single informational problem. I
quote a little below, but if you are at all interested, you should go
to the web page which has a great deal of information I found
difficult to summarize. It also includes a registration form if you
have knowledge discovery software you'd like to enter.
"There is now a plethora of techniques to explore data. They range from
purely statistical approaches to neural networks, machine learning,
and knowledge discovery as batch processes. Integrated approaches use
applied perception (e.g., glyphs) with interactive grand tours, and
purely geometric systems such as parallel coordinates that,
integrating little mathematics, rely more on human participation. The
questions abound. Which techniques are better? Which work on what kind
of data sets? Are certain combinations better?
The Information Shootout project is identifying several datasets and
is making them publicly available for exploration and
discovery. Analysts, by the time of the conferences, will have
provided us the results of their exploration, including the
discoveries they make and the process they used in making them."
--
Tom Owens
MIT Library Systems Office
owens@mit.edu
617-253-1618 voice 617-253-8894 fax
