Questions tagged [tag-synonyms]
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Should we merge "approximation" and "approximation-algorithms"?
The tag approximation is currently much more popular than the tag approximation-algorithms, although both concern approximation algorithms. Should we get rid of the second?
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Should we merge "database-theory", "databases" and "dbms"?
There are at least three tags that refer to databases: databases, database-theory, and dbms. The tag dbms is hardly used, but the other two are both reasonably common.
Should we merge all three of ...
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Two tags for matrices
At the moment, Computer Science SE has tags matrices and matrix.
Shouldn't one be a synonym of the other?
Since, on Stack Exchange, matrices seems to be more popular$\star$ than matrix, I propose ...
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"directed-acyclic-graph" is a tag synonym for "dag"
Dag is exactly an abbreviation for directed acyclic graph. For now, there are 74 questions tagged dag, while only 7 questions tagged directed-acyclic-graph. Since I have no enough score in dag, could ...
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What is the difference between [asymptotics], [big-o-notation], and [landau-notation]?
The asymptotics tag currently has two tags remapped to it: big-o and asymptotic-complexity. I can imagine the reason landau-notation is not amongst those is to distinguish between questions about ...
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Should [numeral-representations] and [number-formats] be merged?
Both tags numeral-representations and number-formats are missing a usage guidance, and I cannot see a difference between the questions tagged either way. Both seem to encompass not only binary, octet, ...
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Should we merge "graphs" with "graph-theory"?
The tags graphs and graph-theory seem to cover much of the same ground.
Should we merge them?
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Burninate/synonymize tag: definition
There were six questions tagged "definition". In most cases, it was either being used as a synonym of "terminology" or its only semantic content was "I'm asking about the definition of something or ...
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Can program-verification be made a synonym of software-verification?
This was already suggested in this 2012 question, with the top answer being to make software-verification the main tag.
Maybe someone with 2500 rep can propose the synonym/merge? Or, answers arguing ...
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Should we merge the tags "hash" and "hashing"?
There are two tags which seem very similar:
hash
hashing
Another similar tag is hash-tables, though it is more specific.
Should we merge hash and hashing?
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Wrapping up some tag discussions
There are a couple of old tag discussions that need resolving.
About the tag graph-algorithms
Burninate tags: search-algorithms and search-problem
Tags efficiency and performance
What about tags ...
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Tags around partitions
Currently, we have tags
partition,
partitions and
partition-problem.
The tags seem to be used a little arbitrarily, and the former two should probably be synonyms. There are no descriptions helping ...
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About the tag [computational-complexity]
Somebody created the tag computational-complexity. Do we need it?
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Do we need tags [dfa] and [nfa]?
Recently, people have started using dfa for tagging some finite-automata questions.
Do we really need this tag, or should it be a synonym for finite-automata?
The question can be asked in principle ...
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Tags efficiency and performance
Is there a significant difference between the tags performance and efficiency (which we should document then), or are they synonyms?
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What about tags random and randomness?
What are the respective roles of random and randomness? Do we need both, or any of them?
Related tags: randomized-algorithms, sampling, random-number-generator, pseudo-random-generators, random-walks,...
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About the tag graph-algorithms
Apparently there's a tag graph-algorithms.
My personal tagging choice has been algorithms + graphs. I think this covers graph algorithms pretty well.
Do we need/want a dedicated tag graph-algorithms?...
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Tags: network-flow, max-flow
I noticed we have tags for both network-flow and max-flow. Does that make sense? Is there any distinction?
There seem to be only 2 questions tagged with max-flow. Should we make max-flow a synonym ...
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tags: variable-binding and scoping
While recently editing a question, Raphael introduced the tag
scoping, using it to replace variable-binding that had
been chosen by the OP. That is apparently the only use of scoping.
I must say, I ...
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What is the difference between the tags natural-lang-processing and computational-linguistics?
What is the difference between the tags natural-lang-processing and computational-linguistics?
Both tags are used, but it seems to me they should be synonymous. The natural-lang-processing tag wiki ...
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What to do about [tag:kernel] with multiple meanings
In trying to do some tag cleanup for OS related tags I came upon the kernel tag. This tag has at least three different meanings in the context of cs.se.
The operating-systems sense, in which the ...
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Are [parsing] and [parsers] synonyms?
The tags parsing and parsers are very close in meaning. Is there any difference, or should they be merged?
I see maybe a very slight nuance — parsing is a bit broader in coverage of language syntax, ...
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Merging the tags complexity and complexity-theory
There are lots of questions tagged complexity-theory and only two tagged complexity. Presumably we should merge the latter into the former.
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Tag merge: should we merge "computer-vision" with "vision"?
There are two tags that seem to be referring to the same subject:
computer-vision
vision
Should we merge these? If I remember correctly from the previous discussion, we decided to drop the "computer"...
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software-verification vs program verification
We have the tags
program-verification and
software-verification.
Both seem to mean the same thing and should therefore be merged. Please vote on the two answers below which one you think should be ...
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YATSD: distributed-systems vs distributed-computing
Yet Another Tag Synonym Discussion: distributed-systems or distributed-computing? The Wikipedia article is called distributed computing, but distributed systems are the object of study. I feel like a ...
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Creating tag synonyms for some arxiv tags
I suggest that we create the following tag synonyms:
cc.complexity-theory -> complexity-theory
ds.algorithms -> algorithms
ds.data-structures -> data-structures
fl.formal-languages -> formal-...
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tags: security vs. computer-security
The tags security, computer-security seems to represent the same thing. I think we should make one a synonym for the other. The first one is shorter whereas the second one is more explicit.
What do ...
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Proposals for tag synonyms [closed]
I can suggest tag synonyms now (and others are soon to follow). Every suggestion will need to be upvoted by at least five users with answer score at least 5 for this tag.
This will (as I understand ...
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Discussions about tags [closed]
I suspect we will have to discuss tags and their usage on a regular basis. Let us do so here; I propose one answer per instance and discussion in the comments.
Note that you can link to tags using a ...
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