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Mutual Contextualization in Tripartite Graphs of Folksonomies

Mutual Contextualization in Tripartite Graphs of Folksonomies
Mutual Contextualization in Tripartite Graphs of Folksonomies
The use of tags to describe Web resources in a collaborative manner has experienced rising popularity among Web users in recent years. The product of such activity is given the name folksonomy, which can be considered as a scheme of organizing information in the users’ own way. This research work attempts to analyze tripartite graphs – graphs involving users, tags and resources – of folksonomies and discuss how these elements acquire their semantics through their associations with other elements, a process we call mutual contextualization. By studying such process, we try to identify solutions to problems such as tag disambiguation, retrieving documents of similar topics and discovering communities of users. This paper describes the basis of the research work, mentions work done so far and outlines future plans.
folksonomy, collaborative tagging, contextualization
966-970
Au Yeung, Ching-man
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Gibbins, Nicholas
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Shadbolt, Nigel
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Au Yeung, Ching-man
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Gibbins, Nicholas
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Shadbolt, Nigel
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Au Yeung, Ching-man, Gibbins, Nicholas and Shadbolt, Nigel (2007) Mutual Contextualization in Tripartite Graphs of Folksonomies. The 6th International Semantic Web Conference, Busan, South Korea. 11 - 15 Nov 2007. pp. 966-970 .

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The use of tags to describe Web resources in a collaborative manner has experienced rising popularity among Web users in recent years. The product of such activity is given the name folksonomy, which can be considered as a scheme of organizing information in the users’ own way. This research work attempts to analyze tripartite graphs – graphs involving users, tags and resources – of folksonomies and discuss how these elements acquire their semantics through their associations with other elements, a process we call mutual contextualization. By studying such process, we try to identify solutions to problems such as tag disambiguation, retrieving documents of similar topics and discovering communities of users. This paper describes the basis of the research work, mentions work done so far and outlines future plans.

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Published date: 2007
Additional Information: Event Dates: 11-15 November 2007
Venue - Dates: The 6th International Semantic Web Conference, Busan, South Korea, 2007-11-11 - 2007-11-15
Keywords: folksonomy, collaborative tagging, contextualization
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 264696
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/264696
PURE UUID: cba76371-282e-4e03-be62-cfdff29ce615
ORCID for Nicholas Gibbins: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6140-9956

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Date deposited: 18 Oct 2007
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:59

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Author: Ching-man Au Yeung
Author: Nicholas Gibbins ORCID iD
Author: Nigel Shadbolt

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