A demonstration of the MAIstro Thesaurus Master and Machine Aided Indexer (M.A.I.), part of the Data Harmony software suite from Access Innovations, Inc. Presented by Alice Redmond-Neal and Jack Bruce at the 2012 Data Harmony User Group meeting on February 7, 2012 at the Access Innovations, Inc. offices.

1. MAIstro
Thesaurus Master and M.A.I.
Jam Session

2. Get going: Start the projects
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3. Jam Session – Thesaurus Master 1
 Look at thesaurus views
 How many terms total? in Persons branch?
 Search for a term
 Add a term (and M.A.I. identity rule)
 Relate terms
 Add Synonym (Nonpreferred term)
 Remove association
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4. Jam Session – Thesaurus Master 2
 Find a term
 Add scope note
 Add editorial note
 Identify a term’s facet – see Facet view
 Add term with notation code
 (available in NTL thesaurus)
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5. Jam Session – Test MAI
 Click Test MAI tab
 Key in:
“Picasso experimented with a range of painting
styles and techniques from his Blue period
works to Cubism.”
 Click Get MAI button
 Select appropriate terms for the document
 Search Thesaurus for other appropriate terms;
select and add them
 Click Log MAI
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6. Jam Session – MAI Rule Builder 1
 Click M.A.I. Rule Builder tab
 Click Statistics > New statistics
 See Statistics report for group of documents
newly indexed (one!)
 # Hits, # Misses, # Noise
 Click key at Misses > Painters > Doc#
 Click key at Noise > Rhythm and blues
music > Doc# (same doc)
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7. Jam Session – MAI Rule Builder 2
 Finetune rules for Misses: Painters
 What word in document prompted you to
think of term Painters?
 Create new rule – this word is Text to Match
 Simple rule? Need any conditions?
 Save rule
 Retry – Painters shows in suggested terms
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8. Jam Session – MAI Rule Builder 3
 Finetune rules for Noise: Rhythm and blues
music
 What word prompted the noise term?
 Shows at right of the term
 Find culprit rule to fix
 Just click bad term OR
 Search with prompt word as Text to Match, using *
to widen your search
 Select rule to finetune
 Add or change conditions as needed
 Save rule
 Click Retry – or – check results in Test MAI 8

9. TM/MAI – finetune rules
MAI Rule Builder tab
 Statistics > New stats
 Note overall stats for Hits, Misses, Noise
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10. TM/MAI – finetune rules
MAI Rule Builder tab
 Click key at Misses
 Select document to view for Misses/Noise
 What word in text makes you think of Term?
 Search rulebase for existing rules to modify
(use * to expand search)
 Modify existing rule – add or change IF
conditions
 OR add a new rule
 Retry
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11. TM/MAI – finetune rules
MAI Rule Builder tab
 Click key at Noise
 Select document to view for Misses/Noise
 Identify rule producing bad result
 Fix rule to produce desired result
 Retry
Each new or finetuned rule improves
categorization accuracy
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