Timeline for The tag [can] and [could] should be merged to [can-modal] and [could-modal] respectively
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| Sep 19 at 15:52 | answer | added | LaurelMod | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 19 at 15:50 | comment | added | Laurel Mod | @ColleenV As for AI as a solution for tagging, I actually experimented a little with ChatGPT, but I didn't give it enough time (or maybe talent) to make it give good suggestions. I remember getting extremely generic suggestions like "grammar" and "tense" or just whatever was mentioned in the title (too obvious to be helpful). Maybe you'd have better luck with a different AI, but the question remains of how to actually get the tags on each question without being disruptive. | |
| Sep 19 at 15:46 | comment | added | Laurel Mod | @ColleenV Basically I mean any word with special properties that is hard to search for (this might not strictly match the formal definition). The tags here (can-modal / could-modal) are good examples, and you mentioned some others. Unfortunately, merging them all into a single bigger tag would again make it hard to find any relevant questions. Some of these tags do have better names than the word itself (e.g., "a" is "indefinite-article") but it's not always easy for me to know what that is given that I had a native speaker's education. | |
| Sep 19 at 15:43 | comment | added | ColleenV | @Laurel I agree - categorizing posts about "a", "of", "for", "be" et. al. so that you can find relevant answers is really difficult in this system. This is actually a problem that is well-suited to be solved with AI helping with searches (and I DO NOT mean providing summaries to answer the question). I wonder if a general "function-words" tag would be helpful to at least narrow down searches and provide a synonym target. | |
| Sep 19 at 15:33 | comment | added | Laurel Mod | @ColleenV Some of them can be made into synonyms (kinda mod-only) but the rest will have to be manually deleted, which can be done by anyone who can edit (try not to flood the homepage). However, I think that tags for function words (if they were consistently applied) could be helpful to keep, since they're almost impossible to search for otherwise. | |
| Sep 19 at 13:36 | comment | added | ColleenV | @Laurel If you look at the bottom of the list of tags sorted by "popular" there's quite a few random word tags that would be worth getting rid of on top of these two. (now, however, young, already, etc. etc.) | |
| Sep 19 at 13:35 | history | edited | ColleenV | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 18 at 14:31 | comment | added | Laurel Mod | Seems reasonable. Any objections? | |
| Sep 18 at 12:44 | history | edited | user1176409 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 18 at 6:16 | history | asked | user1176409 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |