The language granularity of the label

A year or 06 months ago, I wrote an article about the use of labels sooner or later to refute the idea that labels don't make much sense in terms of blogs. Recently saw in the share of an article mentioned tags in the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/38057.html "> Chinese web site is one of the reasons for the problem of language granularity, because" the English granularity is a word, The granularity of Chinese is the word. and a "cat" example, English tags are mostly cat, and Chinese tags may be cats, cats, Cats, Mimi, Kitten and so on.

I think this conclusion is still not accurate, the problem of any language exists, but each has its own performance characteristics. In a way, Chinese may be very troublesome, but English is not easy to do, such as the plural of English. The Fairview Blueprint has an example of an appetizer before an English dinner, which can be called starter, first marshalling, appetizer, hors d ' oeuvres, Anamuse-gueule, and the western restaurant may be called grazing, Sports theme bars may be called warmups.

The point is that computers can't think like people. And in real life, because of language, culture, habits, professional and so on factors, it is easy to cause lexical confusion. In the field of information architecture, there is a method called "Create a controlled glossary". As the name suggests, is unified "the common ideographic word", uses the artificial relations organization to let the computer understand n kind of saying actually all the same.

The article mentions the reason of the second user habit, I think it really exists objectively. But this is not the "Chinese" problem, users can also be educated, such as a lot of good English products, can also see Chinese users to provide and maintain a good tags system. Of course, when it comes to Internet users, it is easy to talk about the topic, anyway, the reality is that the majority of Chinese Internet users are currently the first task is not "task-oriented."

To sum up, I think the problem is not in the tag itself, but the design level does not do enough. In the actual solution, I think that tags do not necessarily need to provide users, because the real value is limited. But if it is the team internal use tags to organize information, will certainly receive a multiplier effect. However, in the processing of Chinese and English, we should pay attention to the localization problem.

Or about "language granularity" example, English tags input into the control, the Convention moralize the habit of the basic use of English comma "," do separator, and many Chinese web site also continued this specification. I think it is not appropriate, because the size of English is a word, it is possible to use more than a few words to describe the word, while the Chinese granularity is the text, all the word description is composed of n words. In addition, the Chinese and English switching is not convenient, so the input input control of tags in the "space" to do the most appropriate separator.

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