Her project was known as mécanographie documentaire (documentary mechanography). She developed one of the earliest automated indexing systems based on syntagmatic analysis . In plain English: she tried to teach the computer to understand not just individual words, but the chains of meaning between them.
While American contemporaries like Calvin Mooers were inventing "descriptors" and "information retrieval," Gonod was already worried about syntax. She knew that "man bites dog" and "dog bites man" use the same words, but mean entirely different things. christiane gonod
Christiane Gonod failed to build the Google of the 1950s. But she succeeded in proving that the most advanced technology is useless unless it understands how we think. But she succeeded in proving that the most
When she presented her findings at conferences, the librarians found her too technical, and the engineers found her too literary. She fell into a disciplinary crevasse. the librarians found her too technical