In social tagging sites, users are provided easy ways to create social networks, to post and share items like bookmarks, videos, photos and articles, along with comments and tags. ...
This article presents a rational model developed under the distributed cognition framework that explains how social tags influence knowledge acquisition and adaptation in explorat...
We consider the network structure and query processing capabilities of social communities like bookmarks and photo sharing communities such as del.icio.us or flickr. A common fea...
In social bookmarking systems, existing methods in tag prediction have shown that the performance of prediction can be significantly improved by modeling users’ preferences. Ho...
In this paper, we investigate the exploitation of user profiles defined in social tagging services to personalize Web search. One of the key challenges of a personalization framewo...