I have given this one some thought, considering that it is the linguistic aspect of this whole idea. (You know me...)

How about creating an ontology based on the 'core' vocabulary of the highest-rated nodes of a hand-marked thread? For example, we have a question or meditation that we mark as 'security', 'password', 'login'. Then we take the nodes from a median score upward (because they are most likely to be relevant to the topic) and extracting their vocabulary, storing it in a keyword list (with verbs, nouns, adjectives) that represents the junction of the topics mentioned above. That would be a quick and dirty way of defining what members belong to an topic category.

These could be split up later and put into XML topic maps which, by virtue of their structure, would allow topic clustering on a much larger scale.

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Allolex

In reply to Re: Re: Tracking popularity of Perl discussion topics by allolex
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