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Aspects of Broad Folksonomies

, , and . 4th International Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval, (2007)

Abstract

Folksonomies, collaboratively created sets of metadata, are becoming more and more important for organising in- formation and knowledge of communites in the Web. While for a single user the difference to keyword assignment is marginal, the power of folksonomies emerges from the col- laborative aspects. Folksonomies are already issue of re- search. Within this publication we analyse underlying sta- tistical properties of broad folksonomies aiming to iden- tify laws and characteristics, which allow inferring prop- erties for folksonomy based retrieval. The actual bene- fit of folksonomies for retrieval and the derived methods are concluded from experiments with aggregated data from del.icio.us.

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