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Information: 1/10/2006; 3 Comments

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Posted on January 10th

I was playing around with Yahoo's term extraction service, as a possible path to tagging (this is the same service used behind TagCloud.com, for example), and I created this C# class libary with a sample app written in Windows Forms.

Term Extraction Sample

Code is available for download here: Term Extraction (ZIP).

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Comment:: 1
Written by:: Salman
Posted on:: 4/3/2006 4:13:00 AM

Very interesting. What sort of algorithm do you have to extract the terms?

Comment:: 2
Written by:: Duncan
Posted on:: 4/3/2006 1:40:00 PM

It uses Yahoo's term extraction service, a link is in the app itself...

Comment:: 3
Written by:: Francis Shanahan
Posted on:: 11/6/2006 3:18:00 PM

Nice. I built the same thing as TagCloud here using Yahoo.

http://www.FrancisShanahan.com/taglines