On the distinctiveness of tags in collaborative tagging systems

André Gohr; Alexander Hinneburg; Myra Spiliopoulou; Ricardo Usbeck

doi:10.1145/1988688.1988760

On the distinctiveness of tags in collaborative tagging systems

André Gohr^*
, Alexander Hinneburg
, Myra Spiliopoulou
, Ricardo Usbeck

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

We study in a quantitative way whether the most popular tags in a collaborative tagging system are distinctive features when looking at the underlying content. For any set of annotations being helpful in searching, this property must necessarily hold to a strong degree. Our initial experiments show that the most frequent tags in CiteULike are distinctive features, despite the process of annotating documents is not centrally coordinated nor correction mechanisms like in a Wiki-system are used.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WIMS'11 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
Editors	Rajendra Akerkar
Number of pages	5
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Publication date	25.05.2011
Pages	1-5
Article number	62
ISBN (Print)	978-145030148-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1988688.1988760
Publication status	Published - 25.05.2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	1st International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, WIMS'11 - Sogndal Auditorium 2, Sogndal, Norway Duration: 25.05.2011 → 27.05.2011 http://wims.vestforsk.no/wims11.html http://wims.vestforsk.no/wims11_schedule.pdf

Research areas and keywords

collaborative information systems
tagging
text mining
Informatics
Business informatics

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Gohr, A., Hinneburg, A., Spiliopoulou, M., & Usbeck, R. (2011). On the distinctiveness of tags in collaborative tagging systems. In R. Akerkar (Ed.), WIMS'11 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (pp. 1-5). Article 62 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/1988688.1988760

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Gohr, A, Hinneburg, A, Spiliopoulou, M & Usbeck, R 2011, On the distinctiveness of tags in collaborative tagging systems. in R Akerkar (ed.), WIMS'11 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics., 62, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 1-5, 1st International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, WIMS'11, Sogndal, Norway, 25.05.11. https://doi.org/10.1145/1988688.1988760

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WIMS'11 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics. ed. / Rajendra Akerkar. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2011. p. 1-5 62 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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