Categorization of news items

[tylervz]

Some possible categories:

• Lectures
• Student events
• Sporting events

How exactly we'd implement this I'm not sure. We could build a neural network and feed it previous issues of student news which we labelled.

Stylistically, we should assign each category a color.

Question: should events be able to have more than one category?

[tylervz]

Other possible categories:

• Faith-related
• SAO
• Concerts
• Movies
• Announcement
• Opportunity
• Event
• Student-Organization

[remocrevo]

The hardest part of this is deciding on the categories. So probably best to start by looking through various Student News headlines (over a semester? a year?) and choosing the most useful categories for the average Student News reader. Your suggestions so far seem pretty good, but it's helpful to have a few people hash through them.

Next, you could start with the obvious patterns:

• Subject contains "MUSIC AT CALVIN": Concerts (or Music, or whatever)
• Subject contains "SAO": SAO
• Subject contains "Chapel" or "LOFT": Faith-related

And let it grow in complexity from there.

P.S. This is Remington, a staff programmer in the library.