[Chandler-dev] Topology in tags

[Davor Cubranic]

Philippe Bossut wrote:
> *But*, saying that there is no spelled out hierarchies between the 
> tags does not mean that there is no structure between them. Such a 
> structure will need to be deduced through how the tagged items relate 
> to each other. Segmentation techniques should be able to infer a local 
> hierarchy of tags even in the most tangled set. Once the local 
> hierarchy is deduced (and appropriately displayed), one can imagine to 
> turn "off" a whole node ("work" in the example given by Bobby).
There was a paper at CIKM in 2005 about automatically generating 
hierarchies of tags based on their frequency of co-occurrence: 
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~panos/publications/cikm2005.pdf.

Davor