You guys are so awesome! Thank you for the detailed and thoughtful responses. I will eagerly look at your work!
I see the tag cloud thing similar to clustering as N.Hira mentions except its more "fuzzy" than clustering. I also recently looked at carrot as well and am learning what it does, but even with it, the clusters are more discrete than a tag cloud which has "shades of gray". Darren On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 17:39 -0400, Glen Newton wrote: > See also: > http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2007/10/drill-clouds-for-search-refinement-id.html > and > http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2007/10/tag-cloud-inspired-html-select-lists.html > > -glen > > 2008/10/16 Glen Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, tag clouds. > > > > I've implemented them using Lucene here for NRC Research Press articles: > > http://lab.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ungava/Search?tagCloud=true&collection=jos&tagField=keyword&keyword=%22chromatin%22&numCloudDocs=200&numCloudTags=50&sortBy=relevance > > > > and here on the Colorado State University Libraries' Catalog: > > http://lab.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ungava01/Search?tagCloud=true&collection=csu&tagField=keyword&title=cell&numCloudDocs=200&numCloudTags=50&sortBy=relevance > > > > As I use them for query refinement (click on the term & it is appended > > to your existing query & you get new results), I call them "drill > > clouds": > > http://lab.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cistilabswiki/index.php/Drill_Clouds#Drill_Clouds > > > > -glen > > > > 2008/10/16 Darren Govoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I guess a link map (as I understand it) is a collection of hyperlinks of > >> words/phrases where the dominant ones are bolder color and larger font. > >> Its relatively new schema, some sites are using. > >> > >> For example, someone searches for a person and a link map would show > >> them all the most frequent terms in the results they got back. Sort of > >> like latent relationships. > >> > >> Does that help? > >> > >> I thought this could be done using term frequency vectors in Lucene, but > >> I've never used TFV's before. And can then be limited to just a set of > >> results. > >> > >> HTH, > >> Darren > >> > >> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 14:09 -0400, Glen Newton wrote: > >>> Sorry, could you explain what you mean by a "link map over lucene > >>> results"? > >>> > >>> thanks, > >>> -glen > >>> > >>> 2008/10/16 Darren Govoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> > Hi, > >>> > Has anyone created a link map over lucene results or know of a link > >>> > describing the process? If not, I would like to build one to contribute. > >>> > > >>> > Also, I read about term frequencies in the book, but wanted to know if I > >>> > can extract the strongest occurring terms from a given result set or > >>> > result? > >>> > > >>> > thank you for any help. I will keep reading/looking. > >>> > > >>> > Darren > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > > > - > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
