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This is the reason the Semantic Web never took off—people on the internet can't even agree on what a "sandwich" is, let alone the exact hierarchy of ontology.
by turnsout 4y ago
This is the reason the Semantic Web never took off—people on the internet can't even agree on what a "sandwich" is, let alone the exact hierarchy of ontology.
This is an area where large language models have a role to play—whatever you're hoping to achieve with user-generated tags can probably be achieved with ML-powered associations or navigation. And the potential benefit is that it could be tailored to each user—so you're only surfacing "Hot Dogs" when certain users click "Sandwich."
- CabSauce 4y agoThis is what we do for the most part. Two tiers of 'tags'. One is curated and required, the other is an embedding.
- CobrastanJorji 4y agoI thought that the cube rule of food generally settled the sandwich debate. A hot dog is not a type of sandwich, being surrounded on three sides. Instead, it is a type of taco.
- turnsout 4y agoHaha yes, and I would hate to meet the Turing-complete tagging system that could capture this nuance!