[Sigia-l] tagging software

[W Evans]

Here is the paper:

Pawan Deshpande. Thesis Supervisor: Regina
Barzilay.<http://people.csail.mit.edu/regina>
Decoding Algorithms for Complex Natural Language
Tasks<http://people.csail.mit.edu/pawand/t/main.pdf>.
M. Eng. Thesis <http://people.csail.mit.edu/pawand/t/main.pdf>.


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:07 PM, W Evans <wkevans4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are certainly a couple (mostly in very very early stage
> development), that will do "tagging" of a person's content by the machine
> once it's in a machine readable format. But it's not called tagging, it's
> called semantic analysis - and it's not quite there yet (under very very
> controlled academic circumstances where all data is normalized beforehand, I
> know one NLP researcher at MIT able to get matching accuracy of machine tags
> to 85+%. In the real world - it's around 50% given perfect grammar and no
> slang or idioms
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Frank Shepard <fgshepard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > but, in this case, the user isn't the tagger. the computer is. crowds
> > don't have a monopoly on "wisdom" ...
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:50 PM, W Evans <wkevans4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I also think one of the biggest benefits of tagging is information
> > discovery
> > > and findability. This means surfing down tag clouds of artifacts other
> > > people tagged. The upfront cost of tagging approaches zero -
> > especially when
> > > distributed. If you are both the tagger and the consumer of the
> > tag....
> > > wouldn't you just create an organization scheme you can stick to?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:46 PM, W Evans <wkevans4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 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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> > > > -------------------------------------------------------
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> > > > user experience architect
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> > > ~ will
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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
> > >  -------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
>
>
> --
> ~ will
>
> "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
> -------------------------------------------------------
>



-- 
~ will

"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
-------------------------------------------------------