@techreport{HeGa06, title = {Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems}, author = {Paul Heymann and Hector Garcia-Molina}, institution = {Computer Science Department}, month = {April}, school = {Standford University}, url = {http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/2006-10}, year = {2006}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a6010ad0fef7cb1442298402ebb979b6/michael}, abstract = {Collaborative tagging systems---systems where many casual users annotate objects with free-form strings (tags) of their choosing---have recently emerged as a powerful way to label and organize large collections of data. During our recent investigation into these types of systems, we discovered a simple but remarkably effective algorithm for converting a large corpus of tags annotating objects in a tagging system into a navigable hierarchical taxonomy of tags. We first discuss the algorithm and then present a preliminary model to explain why it is so effective in these types of systems.}, file = {HeGa06.pdf:folksonomies\\HeGa06.pdf:PDF}, timestamp = {2007.10.11}, keywords = {DISS collaborative creation folksonomy hierarchical systems tagging tagging_characteristics tagging_clustering tagging_convergence tagging_network tagging_structure taxonomy toread } }