Improving on popularity as a proxy for generality when building tag hierarchies from Folksonomies
6th International Conference, SocInfo 2014
Improving on popularity as a proxy for generality when building tag hierarchies from Folksonomies
6th International Conference, SocInfo 2014
Building taxonomies for Web content manually is costly and time-consuming. An alternative is to allow users to create folksonomies: collective social classifications. However, folksonomies have inconsistent structures and their use for searching and browsing is limited. Approaches have been proposed for acquiring implicit hierarchical structures from folksonomies, but these approaches suffer from the “generality-popularity” problem, in that they assume that popularity is a proxy for generality (that high level taxonomic terms will occur more often than low level ones). In this paper we test this assumption, and propose an improved approach (based on the Heymann-Benz algorithm) for tackling this problem by direction checking relations against a corpus of text. Our results show that popularity works as a proxy for generality in at most 77% of cases, but that this can be improved to 81% using our approach. This improvement will translate to higher quality tag hierarchy structures.
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Almoqhim, Fahad
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Almoqhim, Fahad
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Almoqhim, Fahad, Millard, David E. and Shadbolt, Nigel
(2014)
Improving on popularity as a proxy for generality when building tag hierarchies from Folksonomies
6th International Conference, SocInfo 2014.
6th International Conference, SocInfo 2014, Barcelona, Spain.
11 - 13 Nov 2014.
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(doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_7).
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Building taxonomies for Web content manually is costly and time-consuming. An alternative is to allow users to create folksonomies: collective social classifications. However, folksonomies have inconsistent structures and their use for searching and browsing is limited. Approaches have been proposed for acquiring implicit hierarchical structures from folksonomies, but these approaches suffer from the “generality-popularity” problem, in that they assume that popularity is a proxy for generality (that high level taxonomic terms will occur more often than low level ones). In this paper we test this assumption, and propose an improved approach (based on the Heymann-Benz algorithm) for tackling this problem by direction checking relations against a corpus of text. Our results show that popularity works as a proxy for generality in at most 77% of cases, but that this can be improved to 81% using our approach. This improvement will translate to higher quality tag hierarchy structures.
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Published date: November 2014
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6th International Conference, SocInfo 2014, Barcelona, Spain, 2014-11-11 - 2014-11-13
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/372077
ISBN: 978-3-319-13733-9
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Fahad Almoqhim
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David E. Millard
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Nigel Shadbolt
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