IAs, Language and Lego at IA Summit 2008

My first presentation to my first IA Summit is now over — a presentation on semantic analysis.

In linguistics, semantics is the subfield that is devoted to the study of meaning, as inherent at the levels of words, phrases, and sentences. In the presentation, I suggest that by analysing content from its semantic perspective, you can gain a much richer understanding of your content and the business logic that goes into creating it.

If you want to create a taxonomy, a comprehensive index of ‘things’ for help files and FAQs, understand, map and infer the user-behaviour that creates content, then semantic analysis is the tool for you.

If you were at IA Summit, and had any questions arising from the presentation, please feel free to post a comment below. The entire speaker’s notes for the presentation can be found on my slideshare site.

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