Text Mining: Making Connections to Help People & Business. Great article in NYTimes (free registrated required) related to information retrieval, categorization/classification, and use.
“Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom”
Marti Hearst is quoted regarding information vizualization, text mining, and such. Most of the focus was on retrieval in homogenous content such as Medline. The reason why I liked the article was it provides an example of how people/business benefit from better IR tools for such disciplines as medicine. [ia/ – information architecture news]