January 25, 2008
delicious Stemming Pipes Demo
I was just having a look through the chaos that is my delicious tag list, wondering when delicious were going to start supporting stemming in tag based link lookups (e.g. being able to enter http://del.icio.us/psychemedia/game* to look up links tagged game or games) when I realised there's probably quite an easy fix - use a feed merging tool.
So here's a 2 minute proof of concept (I've already spent longer typing this post than it took to build the demo!) - a proof of concept Yahoo pipe to support trivial delicious stemming:
This first attempt lets you type in tag* to search over tag or tags.
I really want to be ablt to enter the tag games and pull things tagged game or games though, so here's a tweak:
If i can find a handy list of stemming regexps, I'll maybe work on maintaining this pipe ;-)
PS I've tweaked the pipe so it replaces the last * in the URL string...
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Tags: pipes, yahoo pipe, delicious, stemming
Posted by ajh59 at January 25, 2008 06:07 PMVery interesting - it seems to me an investigation into other ways of expanding the search (list of synonyms, tags that most commonly occur with the tag in the URL?) would also be worth a look - I might have a play if I get a moment.
Anyway, for stemming algorithms you could have a look at http://tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/