[Sigia-l] tagging software

[Frank Shepard]

"If a machine is going to tag something - you might as well employ
full blown natural language
processing to pull out entities and relationships from content. But this is
not, nor can it be, the point behind tagging."

Why not? if the context is a single user and her data, why not allow a
machine to generate tags? What's the objection to that?

Frank

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:19 PM, W Evans <wkevans4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't the whole point behind the CogSci of tagging of content to generate
>  folksonomies is that it's done by many people and the content get's tag
>  attributes organically through the wisdom of crowds. If a machine is going
>  to tag something - you might as well employ full blown natural language
>  processing to pull out entities and relationships from content. But this is
>  not, nor can it be, the point behind tagging.
>
>
>
>  On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Sarah Dilling <sarahd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > Hi there,
>  >
>  > I have a pile of things (internal mailing lists, if you're curious).
>  > I'd like to tag them and have software generate a tag cloud for me.
>  > Doesn't need to be web accessible or anything, just my curiosity and
>  > perhaps a jumping off point.
>  >
>  > Does anyone know of a free-standing piece of tag software that does
>  > this? Or do I have to abuse del.icio.us or write my own?
>  >
>  > SarahD
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