[Tagdb] Tag connections ( hope this list is active)

[Vivek Krishna]

>
> >  the question is ,how does one get to create relations like tag1 "is a
> > category of " tag2 or tag1 "is a synonym" of tag2 .
> I just took two separate columns "synonym" and "category" where I stored
> if the two tags are categories or synonyms
>
> I hope I understood your question..
> you didn't ask for the algorithm to find out if two tags are category
> related, did you..?


Hi Phillip,
Thanks I get it now.I was wondering how you came up with the synonyms and
categories computation.
quoting from the article
"I consider two tags as synonyms if "in one direction" the other tag is
number one and in the other "direction" the other tag is in the top 10..."

That explains it.
I have a method get_related_tags(tag) . so to see if tag1 and tag2 are
synonyms get_related_tags for both tag1 and tag2 should include each other
in the top few results.

The only modification I would use is to not take 10 results but rather use a
ratio like top 1/10 or some factor which is determined by how many
related tags I get.This is when the database is relatively new and small and
yet to reach scale.

Vivek
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