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And anything using the same hashtag for other purposes (see House) is polluted. We ran into the same problem classifying comedy shows and eventually wrote a mul
by jlees 15y ago
And anything using the same hashtag for other purposes (see House) is polluted. We ran into the same problem classifying comedy shows and eventually wrote a multi-tier relevancy matcher based on the hashtag, key indicators, sentiment and time. A nice problem to chew on if you're so inclined.
- mikecane 15y agoOMG. A generic hashtag like House must be a nightmare. Good thing you're not doing Canadian TV shows too. There's a cop show just called "King." I ranted in a post about how search engine-hostile that title was.
- jlees 15y agoTo derail slightly, some of the comedy shows we ended up dealing with were "Party", "Hotel" and "Free". We didn't require that people used a specific hashtag for each show name (our audience wasn't savvy enough), but we wanted to make sure there were more indicators than just the name. Some included the hashtag for the comedy festival itself (easy), key performer names, temporal or location cues and relevant other words that were strong indicators for the comedy show rather than its other meaning - I curated a list. The same approach'd work here. Why are TV shows so badly named, though, that's the real question? Is it the drive towards simplicity I'm starting to see in a few different places? Or is it "grittier" if it's a show named after just a surname?
- mikecane 15y ago>>>Why are TV shows so badly named, though, that's the real question? TV marketers are not Internet savvy. If I can intrude with a post URL, at least the Oxygen Network understands and assigns hashtags in its ads: http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/oxygen-channel-loves-hashtags/ http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/oxygen-channel-lov... If only all the other TV shows did that!