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ICWSM
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Understanding the Efficiency of Social Tagging Systems using Information Theory
Given the rise in popularity of social tagging systems, it seems only natural to ask how efficient is the organically evolved tagging vocabulary in describing underlying document ...
Ed H. Chi, Todd Mytkowicz
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Social tags: meaning and suggestions
This paper aims to quantify two common assumptions about social tagging: (1) that tags are “meaningful” and (2) that the tagging process is influenced by tag suggestions. For...
Fabian M. Suchanek, Milan Vojnovic, Dinan Gunaward...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 2 months ago
On the Navigability of Social Tagging Systems
It is a widely held belief among designers of social tagging systems that tag clouds represent a useful tool for navigation. This is evident in, for example, the increasing number ...
Denis Helic, Christoph Trattner, Markus Strohmaier...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Trail Patterns in Social Tagging Systems: Role of Tags as Digital Pheromones
The popularity of social information systems has been driven by their ability to help users manage, organize and share online resources. Though the research exploring the use of ta...
Thomas George Kannampallil, Wai-Tat Fu
ADC
2009
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
ActiveTags: Making Tags More Useful Anywhere on the Web
Tags in social tagging systems store meaning for the taggers who have entered them, and other users often share this understanding. The result of this, a folksonomy, is typically ...
Stephan Hagemann, Gottfried Vossen