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Keywords: Implement a Hierarchical System

So some users on here (chiefly keyword warrior) spend a lot of time sorting through keywords to isolate redundancies. Takes a lot of effort.

But another thing that might be useful is isolating what keywords have hierarchical parents. I'll use detective as an example:

anything tagged with "male detective", or "female detective", or "private-detective" should immediately have "detective" applied as a parent. I understand that people probably do this, but I expect there are some that don't - that have been missed. People are generally sloppy taggers. There are probably many other examples from other keywords where a parent-child relationship could be established.

"parenthood" would be parent of "motherhood" or "fatherhood" etc.

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2 years ago

Wikipedia has this system for their "categories" (similar to keywords here) and works pretty well.

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2 years ago

Bump. I'd like to see some comments on this.

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I've already mentioned something to that effect, twice or so in the past five years. I also mentioned the merit of accounting for synonyms too. I've also suggested that every "base" keyword have its own public URL whereby the "base" definition of the word or string of words would be provided.

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@jeorj_euler​ Wow! It would seem that many people have had similar ideas. A true keyword mapping (similar to the former "locations tree") is also a very good idea.

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2 years ago

Today @adrian has suggested the same concept in another thread here.

This also brings up a point that I've wanted to make. I'd love to see when you add a keyword like "escaped-convict" that it automatically adds keywords that are implied like "escaped-prisoner" and "convict".