Classification tries to mimic human understanding. Several methods have been developed in the past to achieve what we as humans can do almost effortless. These methods can be divided into two groups. Rule based classification Rule based systems are...
Semantic Technologies for Document Understanding
Document understanding is about understanding text and determining its meaning and entities therein. For unstructured text the meaning of entities or even simple words very often is not clearly devisable and can be very ambiguous. Take a simple number in a text – this...
10 rules for creating a successful mailroom classification project
Automatic, context based classification for mailrooms has proven to generate significant ROI and acceleration of processes in the last few years. But we have also seen failures and disappointments. I have managed and monitored many of these projects in the past and...
Measuring Classification Quality
For an active production system, but also when the classification scheme is set up, it is very important to measure the quality of the classification. The goal is to create as few as possible errors in classification (also called false positives) as these can severely...