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An approach to building high-quality tag hierarchies from crowdsourced taxonomic tag pairs

An approach to building high-quality tag hierarchies from crowdsourced taxonomic tag pairs
An approach to building high-quality tag hierarchies from crowdsourced taxonomic tag pairs
Building taxonomies for web content is costly. An alternative is to allow users to create folksonomies, collective social classifications. However, folksonomies lack structure and their use for searching and browsing is limited. Current approaches for acquiring latent hierarchical structures from folksonomies have had limited success. We explore whether asking users for tag pairs, rather than individual tags, can increase the quality of derived tag hierarchies. We measure the usability cost, and in particular cognitive effort required to create tag pairs rather than individual tags. Our results show that when applied to tag pairs a hierarchy creation algorithm (Heymann-Benz) has superior performance than when applied to individual tags, and with little impact on usability. However, the resulting hierarchies lack richness, and could be seen as less expressive than those derived from individual tags. This indicates that expressivity, not usability, is the limiting factor for collective tagging approaches aimed at crowdsourcing taxonomies
978-3-319-03259-7
129-138
Almoqhim, Fahad
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Millard, David E.
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Shadbolt, Nigel R
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Almoqhim, Fahad
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Almoqhim, Fahad, Millard, David E. and Shadbolt, Nigel R (2013) An approach to building high-quality tag hierarchies from crowdsourced taxonomic tag pairs. 5th International Conference, SocInfo 2013, Kyoto, Japan. pp. 129-138 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3_12).

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Building taxonomies for web content is costly. An alternative is to allow users to create folksonomies, collective social classifications. However, folksonomies lack structure and their use for searching and browsing is limited. Current approaches for acquiring latent hierarchical structures from folksonomies have had limited success. We explore whether asking users for tag pairs, rather than individual tags, can increase the quality of derived tag hierarchies. We measure the usability cost, and in particular cognitive effort required to create tag pairs rather than individual tags. Our results show that when applied to tag pairs a hierarchy creation algorithm (Heymann-Benz) has superior performance than when applied to individual tags, and with little impact on usability. However, the resulting hierarchies lack richness, and could be seen as less expressive than those derived from individual tags. This indicates that expressivity, not usability, is the limiting factor for collective tagging approaches aimed at crowdsourcing taxonomies

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Published date: November 2013
Venue - Dates: 5th International Conference, SocInfo 2013, Kyoto, Japan, 2013-11-01
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 360425
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/360425
ISBN: 978-3-319-03259-7
PURE UUID: 5ce64c1e-082d-44e6-85c8-7d39c4fcb78e
ORCID for David E. Millard: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7512-2710

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Date deposited: 09 Dec 2013 09:27
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:59

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Author: Fahad Almoqhim
Author: David E. Millard ORCID iD
Author: Nigel R Shadbolt

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