/PRNewswire/ -- Everlaw, the cloud-native investigation and litigation platform, unveiled its Clustering software feature today, delivering an AI breakthrough...
An enormous number of documents is being produced that have to be stored, searched and accessed. Document indexing represents an efficient way to tackle this problem. Contributing to the document indexing process, we developed the...
In the development of documentation studies at the University of Tromsø and the founding of the Document Academy it was asserted that one should view a document as having three complementary and simultaneous aspects: physical, mental, and social. These three document dimensions and relationships between them are discussed. Physicality is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for being a document, there must also be a mental angle, which, in turn, entails a social (cultural) angle. The physical disposition of documents is influenced by social controls. The inability of any one angle to fully characterize a document explains the role of documents in the social construction of reality and why “relevance” in retrieval evaluation can be understood but resists scientific treatment.