[Corpora-List] Quotable Statistics on Unstructured Data on the WWW

[Adam Kilgarriff]

there's phrase structure and dependency structure and morphological
structure and text structure and rhetorical structure and semantic structure



On 6 December 2013 12:12, Daniel Gerber
<dgerber at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>wrote:

> Hallo Adam,
>
> On 06.12.2013, at 12:45, Adam Kilgarriff <adam at lexmasterclass.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> 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.
> 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.
>
> > Adam
> >
> > (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.)
>
> 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.
>
> Daniel
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6 December 2013 08:48, Daniel Gerber <
> dgerber at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I’m searching for any quotable statistics for the distribution of
> structured vs.  (semi-)unstructured data on the web.
> > 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.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> > Daniel
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