Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems
P. Heymann, and H. Garcia-Molina. Technical Report InfoLab 2006-10, Computer Science Department, (April 2006)
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.
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%A Heymann, Paul
%A Garcia-Molina, Hector
%D 2006
%K TaxonomyFolksonomy
%T Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems
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%X 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.
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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.},
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author = {Heymann, Paul and Garcia-Molina, Hector},
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timestamp = {2008-07-09T13:32:23.000+0200},
title = {Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems},
type = {Technical Report InfoLab 2006-10},
url = {http://dbpubs.stanford.edu/pub/showDoc.Fulltext?lang=en&doc=2006-10&format=pdf&compression=&name=2006-10.pdf},
year = 2006
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