Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:02:02 +0530
From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD
Dear Friends,
To those who may not have explored Google at length, I would like to draw
your attention to the Set creation facility in Google. The URL is:
http://labs.google.com/sets
If you enter a few members of a set, (in this case categories of poems)
Google predicts the other members of the set. For instance, I typed Ode,
Haiku, Epitaph and got the following as result:
Ode
Epitaph
Haiku
Limerick
free Verse
Villanelle
Sonnet
Ballad
Blank Verse
Lyric
Elegy
Cinquain
Sestina
epic
Narrative
Quatrain
BioPoem
Shape
List Poem
Acrostic
Rondeau
Shakespearean Sonnet
Dramatic monologue
Italian Sonnet
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This facility can be useful in classification, thesaurus construction,
keyword assignment etc. We need to keep in mind that this is NOT a synonym
finder. It is a tool to predict other members of a set, given names of a few
members. Suppose you want to search for office stationery suppliers, you
just enter a few words like, pen, calculator, photoframe and you will get
the rest - well almost. The output needs to be manually examined for
correctness. Then if you search a "proper database of office needs
suppliers" with the 'resulting words from Google Sets search', better
results may be expected.
*Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre
*ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District,
Hyderabad 500078 INDIA
*Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631
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*Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre
*ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District,
Hyderabad 500078 INDIA
*Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631
*Website: http://www.vic-ikp.info and http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com
