[Tagdb] Multi-Word Tags Vs Single Word Tags

[anand]

>> Yeah, but what about someone who wants to tag a document with "hot dog"?
This is exactly what I meant when I wrote the following:
"I would use 'java_rmi' only incase the two words are inseparable and have
no mean indepently."

'hot dog' is an entirely different entity which is formed by combining hot
and dog. Therefore user would be inclined to use it as a single word of the
form 'hotdog' or 'hot_dog'. But 'london' 'trip' is formed by two different
words having the same semantics when used in multi words or even as a single
word.


On 4/6/06, Colin Viebrock <colin at tucows.com> wrote:
>
> > For instance if I have to
> > tag a document with tags java and rmi, I would rarely go ahead and tag
> > it as
> > 'java_rmi' but rather I would tag it as 'java' and 'rmi'. I would use
> > 'java_rmi' only incase the two words are inseparable and have no mean
> > indepently.
> >
> > Now with multi-word tags users can use entire phrases like 'a trip to
> > london' to tag items which they would have tagged as 'london' 'trip'
> > incase
> > of single word tags. This makes the tagged item difficult to discover,
> > making the tag and thus the user to tagged item relationship non-social
> > (quite opposite to what a tag is supposed to do).
>
> Yeah, but what about someone who wants to tag a document with "hot dog"?
>
> - Colin
>
>


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- Andie
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