[Sigia-l] tagging software

[W Evans]

Because then it's not tagging, it's generating a custom taxonomy without the
hierarchy.

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Frank Shepard <fgshepard at gmail.com> wrote:

> "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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"No matter how beautiful,
no matter how cool your interface,
it would be better if there were less of it."
Alan Cooper
-
"Where you innovate, how you innovate,
and what you innovate are design problems"
-------------------------------------------------------
will evans
user experience architect
wkevans4 at gmail.com
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