this sounds an awful lot like a search engine to me. i like the idea of having some sort of tagging suggestion tool which would suggest certain tags as you are typing, but if you just type in your blog entry and all your tags are auto-generated then how is that different from what a search engine does?
-- Allen On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 11:15, Brent Schneeman wrote: > On 9/30/05, Anil Gangolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > (3) Ease of tagging is extremely important, preferably these could be > > typed as text with some minimal markup right in the entry (as was the > > case with my primitive topic tag page plugin). I think this is really > > important. Pull downs and selection boxes seem too painful, but I may > > be in the minority here. > > > > > > > > > I've been a mostly silent observer of the Roller development dynamics for > the past few months. I wanted to get a feel for the project before I jumped > in. Alas, I'm still not ready to jump in with substantive contributions > (time constraints). However... > > I'd like Roller to address the "ease of tagging" and/or "ease of > categorization" by integrating some auto-text classification mechanisms. > Create a learning mechanism which can observe manual tagging or > categorizations and eventually suggest tags or categories for a particular > entry. I intend on trying to incorporate Classifier4J into Roller at some > point to explore this, but I really don't know when I'll have the time to do > that. > > As a blog author, I would like my entries to determine the classification, > not the other way around, especially after training the system. Compose the > entry, push a "auto-categorize" or "auto-tag" button and get the suggested > answer back. Incorporate DWR and do a "Google Suggests" type of UI. Or > something. > > Classification seems to roll-up into the Planet-space quite nicely. Planet > already has categorization - I think it would be nifty if different feeds or > blogs or even individual entries could automagically aggregate into clusters > - "birds of a feather" or "strange bedfellows". > > I have no association nor experience with Classifier4J; I'm not married to > it. > > I will not have access to email for a week starting tonight so I won't be > able to followup. But this seemed like the right time to mention > classification.
