What’s So Interesting?
| Monday, October 29th, 2007 | --jr |
Whilst wandering various blogs over the weekend, i came across a post from Marco talking about how the term extractor is fairly useful.
Well, yeah, actually, it is.
What that does is analyze a block of content looking for words that might be important. It does that by doing all sorts of context related things in order to find the items that most likely match the terms that are interesting to you (thereby preventing you from getting words about jungle cats and English sports cars when talking about the latest OSX version from Apple). It was originally used to do content analysis for what sorts of ads to display, but obviously it can be used for far more than that.
For instance, you could use it to automatically generate tags for articles, or indexable terms for documents, or boil down things like the Magna Carta into easy, bite-sized buzzwords. (for the curious, they are:
- king of england
- ireland
- all england
- bishops
- illustrious men
- cardinal
- archbishop of canterbury
- william marshall
- god king
- grace of god
- archbishop of dublin
- knights of the temple
- duke of normandy
- bailiffs
- abbots
- foresters
- anjou
- earls
- holy roman church
which I encourage you to add to your next Major Historical Document Recitation Drinking Game.)
What? Hey, I just came off of serving jury duty. Having a Major Historical Document Recitation Drinking Game would have been a more than welcome diversion.)