[Search-l] Text Categorization Project (thanks Intellisophic!)

[jer]

The folks over at Intellisophic (http://www.intellisophic.com/) have  
taken a big step and open-sourced their core text-categorization  
engine.  Some PR went out about it already (http://www.prweb.com/ 
releases/2007/8/prweb544628.htm) and this week they'll be introducing  
us to the codebase both here on the list and on the wiki and  
swlabs.org dev servers.

This new project around their engine is just one component to search,  
and very useful outside of search as well.  For those that aren't  
familiar with text categorization in general, this is a good starting  
point:
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_classification

As with everything else, it will take some time and nurturing to  
really see the fruits of this project, but it's an important piece to  
the puzzle and I thank Intellisophic for taking this big step and  
contributing to the larger open vision of the future.

Jer