%0 Conference Paper %1 Yeung2007 %A Yeung, Ching-man Au %A Gibbins, Nicholas %A Shadbolt, Nigel %B Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution (ESOE2007) at ISWC/ASWC2007, Busan, South Korea, November %D 2007 %K Python %T Understanding the Semantics of Ambiguous Tags in Folksonomies %U http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-292/paper11.pdf %X The use of tags to describe Web resources in a collaborative manner has experienced rising popularity among Web users in recent years. The product of such activity is given the name folksonomy, which can be considered as a scheme of organizing information in the users' own way. In this paper, we present a possible way to analyze the tripartite graphs -- graphs involving users, tags and resources -- of folksonomies and discuss how these elements acquire their meanings through their associ- ations with other elements, a process we call mutual contextualization. In particular, we demonstrate how different meanings of ambiguous tags can be discovered through such analysis of the tripartite graph by study- ing the tag sf. We also discuss how the result can be used as a basis to better understand the nature of folksonomies.

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