i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

Did you enjoy working with the text tools?  Well, it doesn't end there. There are other text tools that can be used to analyze documents, collections, and information objects in general. You’re welcome to check them out and learn how to use them. 

Some questions that you can use to analyze these tools are (comments welcome!):

• What does this tool do?
• Is a machine substituting the Information Organization normally done by humans?
• What are the advantages and drawbacks of this approach?
• Could you have used this tool in any of the assignments?

AliasFree. This tool adds context from Freebase ontologies to narrow down your searches. 

URL: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~michael/iolab/assignment2/

Authors: Nate Gandomi (MIMS 2010) and Michael Manoochehri (MIMS 2010)

TagWiz. This tool lets you visualize the tags that a delicious user utilizes and compares them with other users. It also provides a tag ambiguity evaluation tool. 

URL: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hwpark/iolab/tagwiz/visualization.html

Authors: Prateek Kakirwar (MIMS 2011), Hyunwoo Park (MIMS 2010), and Satish Poliseti (MIMS 2011)

Flickr Tagr. This tool lets you visualize the tags that Flickr users tend to use together. 

URL:http://www.ljuba.net/stuff/flickrtagr/

Authors: Thejo Kote (MIMS 2011) and Ljuba Miljkovic (MIMS 2010)

Little Delicious Treemap browser. This tool lets you visualize and compare the tags used by various delicious users 

URL: http://bylr.net/ldt/

Authors: Dan Byler (MIMS 2011), Kate Smith (MIMS 2011)

Socially Delicious. This tool lets you compare the tags that different users (categorized according to their expertise level) used to describe a URL in delicious.

URL: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~limon/SociallyDelicious/

Authors: Yo-Shang Chen (MIMS 2011), Prateek Kakirwar (MIMS 2011), and Julián Limón (MIMS 2011)

Play around with the tools and if you can think of clever uses of them in your IO/IR tasks add them as comments. Happy text analysis!