ontologies

the animals already know by instinct we’re not comfortably at home in our translated world. Rilke, Duino Elegies, First Elegy    For a dip in a new streaming digital project, go to Tributaries at TCR.

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Behold the Lexicographer: "slave of science, the pioneer of literature" | Jargon of Eden

The emergence of lexicography as a formal practice and discipline in the mid-18th century helps us interpret two interrelated issues in modern epistemology: 1. the evolution of applied analysis and aesthetic modelling as modes of knowledge, and 2. the growing dependence of knowledge upon media and communication technologies.

 The "pages" of this blog aim to explore contemporary developments in knowledge technologies, specifically the various tools and methods emerging within the Digital Humanities to help quantify, assess and analyze information. There's currently an impressive amount research and experimentation within this field, much of it covering a wide variety of professional disciplines and areas of cultural production. The questions linking such work, however, are quite fundamental:

 

For the next few months, we will be publishing small sets of customized vocabularies based on popular news items. The vocabularies will feature a set of new words which (fingers crossed) have never before existed in the common vocabulary known as the English language.

The vocabulary words and accompanying definitions are computer generated using a multi-step definition generator. Output of the generator will be enhanced and tweaked over time as new theories are tested and new ideas come to light. More information on the GTR Dictionary Project can be found here : GTR Dictionary Project.

For the next few months, we will be publishing small sets of customized vocabularies based on popular news items. The vocabularies will feature a set of new words which (fingers crossed) have never before existed in the common vocabulary known as the English language.

The vocabulary words and accompanying definitions are computer generated using a multi-step definition generator. Output of the generator will be enhanced and tweaked over time as new theories are tested and new ideas come to light. More information on the GTR Dictionary Project can be found here : GTR Dictionary Project.

I just had to throw another "web" in there somewhere.... I haven't seen this type of offering from anyone else yet, but the company ClearForest have made their text analysis and classification system "web enabled" so that others can analyze documents and get results in the form of XML documents.

They are even holding a "mash-up" contest to bring attention to their new service and to see how people can use the results of their system in some creative combination with other web services like Google maps etc.

The Dictionary Project is a poetic and theoretical investigative project aimed at the construction of software which generates new domain specific terminology using an ontologically driven text generation system. The software not only creates new words which have never before existed, but definitions for the words themselves which simulates the knowledge creation process.

• For some examples of definitions created by the system, click here to view an excerpt from a the Kootenay School of Writing's W magazine (Issue #9) .