Microsoft is looking at how it could enable us to log everything about our lives and make it searchable - this includes every email you ever send, every telephone call you make and video of every significant event you wish to record...
They've decided that fitting it all on a hard disk is the easy bit - it's the tagging that's more difficult, so they're looking at clever ways of automatically tagging content. A similar issue is being looked at as part of developing theplacetobe.net search engine.
See the story on the BBC site.
I'd be interested to hear how you're planning to auto-tag p2b content –- are you using a Bayesian classifier? Do you have a previously tagged dataset that you can use to teach your tagger, or will you educate it interactively?
Posted by: Tom Dyson | July 28, 2004 at 01:18 AM