Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!umn-d-ub!cs.umn.edu!sctc.com!endrizzi From: endrizzi@sctc.com (Michael Endrizzi ) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: >Fault-tolerant Information Recall Message-ID: <1990Apr13.191658.10233@sctc.com> Date: 13 Apr 90 19:16:58 GMT References: <1990Apr3.200220.9513@sctc.com> Distribution: comp.databases Organization: Secure Computing Technology Corporation Lines: 49 I have been getting phone calls from around the country on my questionaire on fault-tolerant retrieval. I would like to share one interesting call with you from Peter Rowell at ThirdEye Software. ThirdEye software does text-retrieval and classification for large firms like Dialog and Nexus. ThirdEye attempts to perform semantic classification and retireval by looking for keywords and prioritizing them according to the context they appear in. There are other techniqes, but this is only an example. Peter said that ThirdEye talked to a major RDBMS firm about combining technologies, and the RDBMS firm went critical when ThirdEye explained the text-retrieval process. I won't speak for Peter, but I can only guess that it is a combination of misunderstanding and being set in your ways. Peter said that text-retrieval is considered an orphan from Computer Science perhaps because it is not an exact science, so it found a home in Library Science. So my question is, OLTP databases have terabytes of information stored in them. The whole RDBMS community is operating on the assumption that these terabytes and associated queries have perfect and complete information stored in them, which is a crock. Why is it so threatening and revolutionary to increase the value of this information by being able to process both the correct information and corrupted information? I would really love to have an answer to this. Thank you people, Dreez ================================================================= ================================================================= Michael J. Endrizzi Secure Computing Technology Corp. 1210 W. County Road E #100 Arden Hills, Mn. 55112 endrizzi@sctc.com (612) 482-7425 *Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are not of my employer but of the American people. ================================================================= =================================================================