Collective User Behaviour and Tag Contextualisation in Folksonomies

Au Yeung, Ching Man, Gibbins, Nicholas and Shadbolt, Nigel (2008) Collective User Behaviour and Tag Contextualisation in Folksonomies. 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, Sydney, Australia. 09 - 12 Dec 2008. pp. 659-662 .

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Abstract

Collaborative tagging systems have emerged in recent years to become popular tools for organising information on the Web. While collaborative tagging offers many advantages, they also suffer from several limitations, with a major one being the existence of ambiguous tags. To understand what an ambiguous tag is intended to mean, we need to know the contexts in which it is used. Instead of using common large scale clustering techniques on folksonomies, we believe tags can be better contextualised by the social contexts in which they are used. We propose a method to reveal semantics of ambiguous tags by studying the collective user behaviour in a tagging system. In this paper we describe our proposal and some results of our preliminary experiments. We also discuss the significance of the work and how it can be evaluated.

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Published date: 9 December 2008

Additional Information: Event Dates: 9-12 December 2008

Venue - Dates: 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, Sydney, Australia, 2008-12-09 - 2008-12-12

Keywords: folksonomy, tagging, social bookmarking, semantics

Organisations: Web & Internet Science