<div dir="ltr">there's phrase structure and dependency structure and morphological structure and text structure and rhetorical structure and semantic structure<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 6 December 2013 12:12, Daniel Gerber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dgerber@informatik.uni-leipzig.de" target="_blank">dgerber@informatik.uni-leipzig.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hallo Adam,<br>
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On 06.12.2013, at 12:45, Adam Kilgarriff <<a href="mailto:adam@lexmasterclass.com">adam@lexmasterclass.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I always squirm when I hear text referred to as unstructured data. (Daniel - I see you do too, from the '(semi-)'.) It feels like a teenager declaring everyone over 25 as old.<br>
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</div>As what do you see text then? Yes, I typically refer to text as being unstructured, tables and so on as semi structured und databases as structured.<br>
I’m sorry that you feel greatly offended by my understanding. But your reply does not answer my question nor does it help me to understand a different point of view any better.<br>
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> Adam<br>
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> (PS - I first came across it in the IBM-promoted UIMA, the U is unstructured, so the inventors of that acronym should be shot. Not sure if the initiative is ongoing.)<br>
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</div>I think you should apologize to the people you want to be shot. I can’t believe that someone (especially with a scientific background as you have) articulates in such manner.<br>
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> On 6 December 2013 08:48, Daniel Gerber <<a href="mailto:dgerber@informatik.uni-leipzig.de">dgerber@informatik.uni-leipzig.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> I’m searching for any quotable statistics for the distribution of structured vs. (semi-)unstructured data on the web.<br>
> So far I could only find some blog post’s about Big Data statistics or presentations which claim a 15%-85% distribution but forget to quote the sources for this claim.<br>
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated,<br>
> Daniel<br>
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