%0 Report %1 Heyman_Garcia-Molina_2006 %A ?, %D 2006 %K emergent_semantics tagging %T Collaborative creation of communal hierarchical taxonomies in social tagging systems %X 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 e®ective algorithm for converting a large corpus of tags annotating objects in a tagging system into a navigable hierarchical taxonomy of tags. We ¯rst discuss the algorithm and then present a preliminary model to explain why it is so e®ective in these types of systems.

@techreport{Heyman_Garcia-Molina_2006, abstract = {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 e®ective algorithm for converting a large corpus of tags annotating objects in a tagging system into a navigable hierarchical taxonomy of tags. We ¯rst discuss the algorithm and then present a preliminary model to explain why it is so e®ective in these types of systems.}, added-at = {2008-10-13T11:34:58.000+0200}, author = {?}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26a4b9eb9b82bad39796132ef519b5085/bluedolphin}, date = {2006}, institution = {InfoLab Technical Report}, interhash = {1b20e53ccfb89e01df3f1b1360ecdba3}, intrahash = {6a4b9eb9b82bad39796132ef519b5085}, keywords = {emergent_semantics tagging}, month = {October}, timestamp = {2008-10-13T11:34:58.000+0200}, title = {Collaborative creation of communal hierarchical taxonomies in social tagging systems}, year = 2006 }