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Re: The End of the World (Wide Web) / Part II
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PACS-L Moderator)
Mon Oct 7 21:29:13 1996
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 18:14:33 -0500 (CDT)
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>From: jawood@fiat.gslis.utexas.edu (Jeannette Woodward)
>Subject: Re: The End of the World (Wide Web) / Part II
>
>What I keep coming back to is that AI is of little help when what you're
>looking for doesn't have a distinctive name or term associated with it. If
>I look for hydrogen sulfide or Marxism or Clive Shackleford or Ursa Major,
>I'll probably do okay no matter which search engine I use.
>
>In the humanities where it's the way words are used rather than the words
>themselves, it's another story altogether. A hypertext link is usually the
>result of human thought- "In my mind, I associate x with y, maybe you would
>find that association useful too." So far, at any rate, I don't find
>anything in fuzzy logic, cognative studies, etc to compare with those
>simple associations.
>
>Jeannette Woodward
>
>
