I feel lucky re: autotagging

I experimented with an automatic-tagging experiment/engine tonight.  The designer cleverly used Wikipedia’s URIs as a source for a controlled concept/tagging vocabulary!  Pretty cool.  He full-text indexed Wikipedia (yes, he downloaded it all) with Lucene, (an open source search engine), and used its, “I feel lucky,” feature to make tag/concept associations.

As input I experimented with text from Bob’s first slide from the last lecture:

Overview of the Semantic Web RDF OWL A Critical Evaluation of the Semantic Web Semantically-aware systems

Try copying it and pasting it here

There’s too much output to post here, but you get a tiered-list of potential tags.  I found the third-tier results pretty interesting. I could imagine this being useful (though imperfect) for automatically adding keyword/tag metadata to a document.

..So someone could develop a blog plugin that automatically generates tags based on this..

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