Tag Meaning Disambiguation through Analysis of Tripartite Structure of Folksonomies

Au Yeung, Ching Man, Gibbins, Nicholas and Shadbolt, Nigel (2007) Tag Meaning Disambiguation through Analysis of Tripartite Structure of Folksonomies. The 2007 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Intelligence Agent Technology - Workshops, Silicon Valley, California, United States. 02 - 05 Nov 2007. pp. 3-6 .

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Abstract

Collaborative tagging systems are becoming very popular recently. Web users use freely-chosen tags to describe shared resources, resulting in a folksonomy. One problem of folksonomies is that tags which appear in the same form may carry multiple meanings and represent different concepts. As this kind of tags are ambiguous, the precisions in both description and retrieval of the shared resources are reduced. We attempt to develop effective methods to disambiguate tags by studying the tripartite structure of folksonomies. This paper describes the network analysis techniques that we employ to discover clusters of nodes in networks and the algorithm for tag disambiguation. Experiments show that the method is very effective in performing the task.

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Published date: 2007

Additional Information: Event Dates: 2-5 November

Venue - Dates: The 2007 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Intelligence Agent Technology - Workshops, Silicon Valley, California, United States, 2007-11-02 - 2007-11-05

Keywords: folksonomies, collaborative tagging, disambiguation

Organisations: Web & Internet Science