11.3 SharePoint Portal Server Category Assistant

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Categories can be used to efficiently sort files and information. For example, a sales category containing sales-related information would be a starting point for a new sales-person. The problem is that with a large number of documents, categorizing them can be a time-consuming task. To simplify the process, SharePoint Portal Server provides an automated categorization tool called the Category Assistant. After a few representative documents have been categorized for each category, the Category Assistant compares those sample documents to the uncategorized documents and then automatically selects the best category matches based on the content in the uncategorized documents. This is a very smart piece of technology based on some smart-ranking algorithms from Microsoft Research (see Figure 11.4).

Figure 11.4: Categories in SharePoint Portal Server.

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