Yahoo! News Tag Soup
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Written By Reprise Media | May 17, 2005 | Share This
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As someone who has a hard time keeping her socks with their mates, I have mixed feelings about tagging. While I recognize the long-term value of setting up an organizational system, sometimes I just want to get out the door, even if that means sporting one argyle and one tube sock.
That’s why I was pleased […]
As someone who has a hard time keeping her socks with their mates, I have mixed feelings about tagging. While I recognize the long-term value of setting up an organizational system, sometimes I just want to get out the door, even if that means sporting one argyle and one tube sock.
That’s why I was pleased to read on the Yahoo! Search Blog about a new app by that aims to automate the process of tagging. It’s called Yahoo! News Tag Soup and it was created by John Herren, who explains the motive behind his pet project on the How Does This Work? page: “‘Cuz I’m lazy like that.”
Maybe so, but the process seems pretty well-thought-out to us. The app works by combining Yahoo’s Content Analysis Web Service with RSS feeds from Yahoo! News and a MySQL database. A scaling function gives prominence to the most popular, frequently occurring terms. Right now, “President Bush”, “United States”, “Iraq”, and “White House” are showing up as the most prominent (surprise, surprise).
The app has only been monitoring feeds for a few days now, it’ll be cool to see how this changes with current events. Also, the results are based off abstracts, not whole articles, so that’s sure to have an impact as well.
Hit Herren up for his source code at his Yahoo! 360 blog now.
Topics: Tagging |
Hi,
That script has been OSS for months. I use it for internal and external del.icio.us tags.