How to disambiguate tag senses?
Mar 2nd, 2005 by Phil Dawes
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 people). Or Sleeper, Sleeper and Sleeper.
The big question is, how do you disambiguate a tag into its senses*? Can statistical analysis help?
(*without loosing the simplicity and serendipity of the system)
Hi Phil,
I’ve playing with something vaguely similar to your tripletags. I’m taking the approach of trying to map tags to a collaboratively developed ontology (and hopefully thereby be able to make interesting inferences). I’ve struggled a bit with the tag sense issue also - e.g. I’ve gone back and forth on whether or not the relationship between ontology elements and tags is inverse functional (which maps to the question of how to deal with multiple tag senses). Anyway, thought you might be interested in checking it out - it’s at:
http://labs.intellidimension.com/ontag/
Geoff
Cool - I’ll check it out, Thanks