Posts in the category: Iraq war
War vs. War: Funny Keyword Accuracy
Last week I spent some time reviewing the accuracy of our keyword tracking on one of our development versions of Managing News. We've been testing auto tagging engines, from our internal artificial intelligence system and more recently Calais (formally known as ClearForest before Reuters bought it last year) to figure out what gives us the most accurate keywords.
I decided to look at some political candidates in the south to see whether or not they were being associated with the Iraq war. Of course, good and accurate tracking of an issue like this also means looking at how the media uses the word "war" with current events. So now for your moment of Zen, the most ridiculous find of the day.

+1 for improved accuracy. However, my apologies go out to all the CNN viewers who had to watch that. Read more »