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Discovering and Modelling Multiple Interests of Users in Collaborative Tagging Systems

Discovering and Modelling Multiple Interests of Users in Collaborative Tagging Systems
Discovering and Modelling Multiple Interests of Users in Collaborative Tagging Systems
We analyse data obtained from several collaborative tagging systems and discover that user interests can be very diverse. Traditional methods for representing interests of users are usually not able to reflect such diversity. We propose a method to construct user profiles of multiple interests using data in a collaborative tagging system. Our evaluation suggests that the proposed method is able to generate user profiles which reflect the diversity of user interests and can be used to help provide more focused recommendation.
user interests, folksonomy, tagging
115-118
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 (2008) Discovering and Modelling Multiple Interests of Users in Collaborative Tagging Systems. 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, Sydney, Australia. 09 - 12 Dec 2008. pp. 115-118 .

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We analyse data obtained from several collaborative tagging systems and discover that user interests can be very diverse. Traditional methods for representing interests of users are usually not able to reflect such diversity. We propose a method to construct user profiles of multiple interests using data in a collaborative tagging system. Our evaluation suggests that the proposed method is able to generate user profiles which reflect the diversity of user interests and can be used to help provide more focused recommendation.

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Published date: 9 December 2008
Additional Information: Event Dates: 9-12 December 2008
Venue - Dates: 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, Sydney, Australia, 2008-12-09 - 2008-12-12
Keywords: user interests, folksonomy, tagging
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 266992
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/266992
PURE UUID: 78de94ac-5ca8-44a0-842b-61dc4ab41849
ORCID for Nicholas Gibbins: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6140-9956

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Date deposited: 21 Dec 2008 13:50
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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