In this website you can find information about folksonomies, their strenghts and weaknesses, and Sem4Tags an approach to improve multilingual folksonomies using semantic web techniques. In addition, there is information about the developed demo software to associate tags with semantic entities.
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J. Illig, A. Hotho, R. Jäschke, and G. Stumme. Knowledge Processing and Data Analysis, volume 6581 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 136--149. Berlin/Heidelberg, Springer, (2011)
J. Mueller, S. Doerfel, M. Becker, A. Hotho, and G. Stumme. Recommender Systems and the Social Web Workshop at 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2013, Hong Kong, China -- October 12-16, 2013. Proceedings, 1066, Aachen, Germany, CEUR-WS, (2013)
R. Jäschke, B. Krause, A. Hotho, and G. Stumme. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media(ICWSM 2008), AAAI Press, (2008)
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R. Jäschke, A. Hotho, C. Schmitz, and G. Stumme. Proc. 18. Workshop Grundlagen von Datenbanken, page 80-84. Halle-Wittenberg, Martin-Luther-Universität, (June 2006)
A. Hotho, R. Jäschke, C. Schmitz, and G. Stumme. Prof. First International Conference on Semantics And Digital Media Technology (SAMT) (to appear), Athens, Greece, (December 2006)
A. Hotho, R. Jäschke, C. Schmitz, and G. Stumme. Proceedings of the Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop at the 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Aalborg, Denmark, Aalborg University Press, (July 2006)
A. Hotho, R. Jäschke, C. Schmitz, and G. Stumme. Proceedings of the Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop at the 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, (2006)to appear.