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Archive for March, 2005

Had an implementation thought on the train this morning:
Instead of implementing a graph as a single id in the 4th column of the quads table, how about implementing it as a range of triple ids. i.e. Each triple is given a sequential id in the 4th column when asserted, and the graphs are […]

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Following up on the disambiguation thing, once the aggregator knows that it’s dealing with multiple senses of the same tag, the strategies become much more obvious. Here’s a couple of ideas:
Indicating other similar usages
Am thinking that a graph could ‘import tag-senses’ from another graph. I.e. effectively saying ‘if you’re trying to 2nd-guess what I’m talking […]

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Overdose

Have been feeling poorly today. On the train back to birmingham I took an overdose of sudafed purely by accident (I always take 2 tablets. You’re only meant to take one with sudafed). Don’t think it did me any harm, and while I was sniffling I had some ideas on disambiguating tag senses.

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Had some conversations about tag disambiguation with people at work and in the pub yesterday (that’s right folks - I’m lots of fun to go drinking with). Stu reminded me that in the del.icio.us tagging folksonomy world, people are able to choose meaning by social convention - i.e. they see which tags people are using […]

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Have just read the tagwebs page (thanks Seth). For me, the problem with all the meta-tag structured data ideas (including tripletags in its current form) is in disambiguation of ’senses’ of a tag. The tagweb idea plays out well until you have multiple meanings for the same tag. E.g. Phil and Phil (2 different […]

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