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Del.icio.us Tag Co-Occurrence Demo App

February 23, 2008 on 10:00 am | Tags: del.icio.us, Development, folksonomy, funstuff, Java, lsa | In Development, Java, Tagging, Web2.0 | 2 Comments

You might all know del.icio.us, the social bookmarking service. As I use this a lot and also did some research in this direction recently (see e.g. here) I wanted to try out more Within my preparations for the Multimedia Information Systems course this semester I checked in how far LSA (latent semantic analysis) can be applied to tags and made also a small demo application. The demo fetches the RSS feed from a given user name (leave the name field blank for random names, separate multiple names by commas) and computes a co-occurrence matrix after a latent semantic analysis. Note that only the last ~30 entries are in the feed. You might then select a tag from the combo box and find the related ones.

The tool can be accessed via Java Web Start here. Drop me a line whether you like it or not.

Related links:

• Start the demo application (Java Web Start)
• Jama Matrix Library
• LSA on Wikipedia
• JGoodies Looks – used to male it looking good