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dc.contributor.authorHanson, F. Allan
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-23T18:26:23Z
dc.date.available2008-09-23T18:26:23Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/4209
dc.description.abstractTo classify is to organize the particulars in a body of information according to some meaningful scheme. Difficulty recognizing metaphor, synonyms and homonyms, and levels of generalization renders those applications of artificial intelligence that are currently in widespread use at a loss to deal effectively with classification. Indexing conveys nothing about relationships; it pinpoints information on particular topics without reference to anything else. Keyword searching is a form of indexing, and here artificial intelligence excels. Growing reliance on automated means of accessing information brings an increase in indexing and a corresponding decrease in classification. This brings about a shift from the modernist view of the world as permanently and hierarchically structured to the indeterminacy and contingency associated with postmodernism.
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectClassification
dc.subjectIndexing
dc.subjectModernism
dc.subjectPostmodernism
dc.subjectWorldview
dc.subjectAutomation
dc.titleFrom Classification to Indexing: How Automation Transforms the Way we Think
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/0269172052000343312
dc.subject.urihttp://id.worldcat.org/fast/863569
dc.subject.urihttp://id.worldcat.org/fast/968979
dc.subject.urihttp://id.worldcat.org/fast/1024455 l l http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1024442 l l http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1736351
dc.subject.urihttp://id.worldcat.org/fast/1073164
dc.subject.urihttp://id.worldcat.org/fast/624090
dc.subject.urihttp://id.worldcat.org/fast/822786
dc.subject.fastClassification
dc.subject.fastIndexing
dc.subject.fastModernism (Literature) l l Modernism (Art) l l Modernism (Music)
dc.subject.fastPostmodernism
dc.subject.fastWorldview International Foundation
dc.subject.fastAutomation
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccess


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