Ask HN: How to reliably auto assign categories on posts?

Posted by john200ok on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:00AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have website that has thousands of posts and I want to auto assign categories to each of them so I can implement a category filter. What are some good ways to easily and quickly do this?

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Re:Ask HN: How to reliably auto assign categories on posts? by stop50 on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:02AM (#41024145)

Do you use tags?

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Re:Ask HN: How to reliably auto assign categories on posts? by john200ok on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:04AM (#41024158)

No tags yet

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Re:Ask HN: How to reliably auto assign categories on posts? by apothegm on Sunday July 21, 2024 @09:05AM (#41024793)

This sounds like a job for AI.

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Re:Ask HN: How to reliably auto assign categories on posts? by john200ok on Sunday July 21, 2024 @12:25PM (#41026161)

I tried using AI but I wasn't successful. It generates a lot of similar variations of a specific category and if I provide a list of options it still uses categories that are not on the list.

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Re:Ask HN: How to reliably auto assign categories on posts? by apothegm on Saturday July 27, 2024 @07:44AM (#41085927)

Make it two separate tasks. Once it’s categorized everything and there are too many categories, set it a separate task to consolidate categories.

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Re:Ask HN: How to reliably auto assign categories on posts? by beardyw on Sunday July 21, 2024 @09:32AM (#41024948)

I think you will need a list of categories first.

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Re:Ask HN: How to reliably auto assign categories on posts? by john200ok on Sunday July 21, 2024 @12:47PM (#41026308)

Generating that list will take a lot of time and effort. I think there will be like hundreds of categories. But let's say I have a list of categories and it's ready to be used, how can the posts be auto-assigned to the relevant categories?

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