[Tagdb] Multi-Word Tags Vs Single Word Tags
Rob Sharp
rob at sharp.id.au
Fri Apr 7 01:21:02 GMT 2006
Bill Ward wrote:
> Or, when saving the multi-word tag in the db, you could also extract
> the single words from it and save them too, maybe with some flag to
> indicate that they are derived from a multi-word tag. In the case of
> "A trip to London" you might have some logic that knows how to ignore
> articles and prepositions, and then it would save that as three tags:
> "A trip to London", "trip", and "london" - that way you don't have to
> resort to a like operation when querying.
>
Phillip Keller has an interesting blog article on the issue of filtering
tags. He uses tag distribution to evaluate tags and give them context-
what he terms categories, synonyms and adjectives.
http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2005/07/analyzing-tag-connections.html
Regards,
Rob.
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