Tech Note: Content Analysis and Tag Suggestions

Making metadata easier
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We have a very cool new feature in LGF Pages today; to help you easily pick appropriate tags for your Pages, we now have a magical “Suggest Tags” button that will analyze the text of your post and extract the relevant keywords, then show you a list of alphabetically sorted tags and let you click on the ones you want to use.

No, I didn’t write the analysis code myself; there’s no point in reinventing the wheel when AlchemyAPI already exists; this set of content analysis tools uses advanced statistical and linguistic algorithms to find the most appropriate and important words and phrases in your text. In testing I found that it did an excellent job with most of the text I threw at it — sometimes amazingly accurate, in fact.

Here’s what it looks like when you click the “Suggest Tags” button in the LGF Pages bookmarklet, using an excerpt from Roger Ebert’s review of the film “Chinatown:”

To add tags to your post, just click on them in the list. Now, adding relevant metadata to your LGF Pages takes just a few clicks, and pays off in many ways. Search engines see them, and you can search and browse by tags in the LGF Pages main index.

(And by the way, all the tags for this post were suggested by AlchemyAPI.)

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Create a PageThis is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go.
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT
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