This has been hovering on
This has been hovering on the border of my consciousness for months, and it sounds kinda stupid, but I just realized what's wrong with Automatic Classification and the general approach to classification, and how to fix it. It is, ironically, because of the (largely unconscious) worldview inherent in the heritage of the library sciences. I'm gonna try to write it down clearly - or I'll probably come to my senses later.
# Apr 14, 2003