Ask HN: How to implement a succesful semantic tagging strategy?

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by hcarvalhoalves • 14 years ago

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Does anyone know about good resources (papers, articles, open source projects) that can be used as best practices or previous-art on semantic tagging inside a CMS context (aka tripe-tags or machine-tags)? Unfortunately Google's results don't return anything insightful (most results only talk about RDF) and interest in this subject seems rare. Even better if someone from HN has actual experience implementing a semantic tagging system and is willing to toss it's $ 0.02 in.

maxdemarzi• 14 years ago

Maybe something on http://tm.durusau.net/?cat=151

traxtech• 14 years ago

What you search, I believe, is called "semantic clustering" : grouping textual content with related concepts.

You may be interested in the algorithms used in Apache Mahout ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Algorithm... )

keefe3• 14 years ago

RDFa and microformats are often used, need to know more about what your particular usecase is

hcarvalhoalves2• 14 years ago

More specifically, I'm interested on what are the best practices for semantic tagging content in a CMS system. E.g.: how to tag an article with a movie title and an artist name, and then persist this information in such a way that it can be recoverable and searchable. I've seen quite a few tagging solutions and models, but it doesn't seem there's agreement on the technologies involved, and even less on the theory behind it.

keefe3• 14 years ago

are you rolling your own CMS? yahoo at one point was using RDFa so I think that is the closest thing to a standard agreement. Entity extraction to generate tags from natural language is a different and more difficult issue. Some reading on parametric search is probably helpful.

dougk7• 14 years ago

Maybe Carrot2 http://project.carrot2.org/ is worth looking at

hmgauna• 14 years ago

I'm really interested in this topic, and unfortunately it seems to be, as you say, a lack of interest there. As far as I know, the last effort to go towards a standard in semantic markup is http://schema.org/ Apparently, the major search engines are supporting this standard by now (read http://googleblog.blogspot.com.ar/ ). According to what I read in your reply to keefe, I think this is what you may be looking for. Example for movie: http://schema.org/Movie Wish it helps, I'm not always fully satisfied with how this ends up classifying the reality, but that is where we are by now.

Ask HN: How to implement a succesful semantic tagging strategy?

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