Where does tag collide?

A short question added to the end of a statement that invites the listener to confirm it, as in the fragment appended to a sentence like 'it is late'. Lakoff's 1973 Language and woman's place analysed such tag questions as a device that softens an assertion and leaves room for the hearer to agree or object, a treatment that shaped decades of later work on their form and use. As a grammatical construction the tag is a clause attached to another clause in speech, unrelated to a marker fastened to an animal, address bits held inside a cache, or a keyword placed on a shared file.[1]

Unit

One tag clause appended to a host statement

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Described by its syntactic form, its polarity and auxiliary, and studied in speech by frequency and intonation

A freely chosen keyword that a person attaches to a shared item such as a bookmark, photo, or post, so that content can be found and grouped without a fixed classification scheme. Golder and Huberman's 2006 Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems studied how large numbers of users add such keywords and how a stable shared vocabulary emerges from their independent choices. In this meaning a tag is a label a person types onto digital content, counted across a crowd of taggers, and it differs from a marker on an animal, address bits in a cache, or a question added to a spoken statement.[2]

Unit

One keyword a user assigns to one shared item

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Analysed by tag frequency, co-occurrence, and the shared vocabulary that stabilises across many users