In this case, of course, an experimenter's unconscious bias mayseriously compromise experimental results
Reminds the reader that the author acknowledges the presence of bias, and how it's not necessarily something that can be removed from this process, no matter the methods used
At least two major problems arise in the design of a study of this kind
This part of the article, outlining the issues that may arise, is super interesting and relevant to questions I've had while reading
Empirical research may one day beginto answer this question.
nice to know we all have the same questions, lol
This possibility means that documents with similaraboutnesses may be classified differently by different classifiers or by the sameclassifier at different times
Wondering if this now changes/puts into question the effectiveness of this method, and whether despite its fault is still capable of merit
t may be possible to sketch the overall design of a research projectthat could shed light on some of the issues raised by the identification of intertex-tual links between a classification system and the documents classified by it and bythe resulting descriptive model of the cognitive processes of document classifica-tion as shown in Figure 2.
Wonder if a researcher has attempted to this research project, and if their findings support the arguments made in this article.
mpirical research tends to uphold this view
Wish there was a better reference to the empirical research, because later in the article we see that this research is in reality very difficult to conduct and measure, as it is often not repeatable and dependant on too many differing factors.
The capitalistic
How is the DDC capitalistic? Will we find out these nuances and societal interpretations later in the semester?
Classificationists have usually hoped that their particular creationwould be more or less permanent and to this end have tried to find unaltering basesfor their systems.
Is there a fear of it changing suddenly?
oes not addressthe difficult practical problem of deciding whether the surface expression of a con-cept in a class name is an adequate verbal representation of the underlying deepproposition(s) that may be extracted from the document.
Reference to the issue presented at the beginning of this page, how are people supposed to judge aboutness/classify things without familiarizing themselves with the topic/basic knowledge
subsumability
Subsume: "encompass as a subordinate or component element" I guess this would be in reference to breaking something down, and finding the sum of its parts?
A great deal of this kind of knowledge must routinely be suppliedby the author of some kinds of texts (e.g. science fiction or anthropological fieldstudies) because without an understanding of the customs and culture of the textworld the reader becomes intellectually incapacitated
How ironic, I feel intellectually incapacitated reading some portions of this article
I like how this is the beginning to the later argument about classification systems being biased, or inherently political (or capitalist), as it's something woven into our society with the assumption of a common or shared knowledge
The deep elements of language
This idea of a "deep element" returns later in the article, when discussing how classifiers combine the understanding of aboutness and a "deeper knowledge" - or am I mistaken?
This paper is concerned only with written texts.
Wonder what a paper that had a broader approach would look like, and if it could produce a more effective empirical study
developed by text linguist T. A. vanDijk as part of his general theory of cognition and of text comprehension
I believe this is a direct reference (and is referenced in the rest of the text) to this article written in 1978, https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.85.5.363
'Is aboutness a func-tion of a document, and if it is not, of what could it be a function? Is the aboutnessof the whole document, its abstract, and its indexing all the same? Everyone seemsto have his own idea as to what aboutness is.'
This was when I had to start keeping separate notes for this reading; Aboutness as a function, using it as a tool in classification, a component of a multi-step analysis of a text ...?
'aboutness' (extensional aboutness)with 'meaning' (intensional aboutness).
Reference to earlier definition, signalling to the reader how "aboutness" is more about the continuation of a topic (having multiple facets that can be noted/observed) and "meaning" is a relatively closed loop (a form of resolution as been reached when defining the perimeter of the topic)
colloquium
Academic conference/seminar