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Available viahttp://dbpubs.stanford.edu/pub/2007-11
Submitted on 19th of February 2007
Author Koutrika, Georgia; Effendi, Frans; Gyongyi, Zoltan; Heymann, Paul; Garcia-Molina, Hector
Title Combating Spam in Tagging Systems
Date of publication 19th of February 2007
Citation Koutrika, Georgia; Effendi, Frans; Gyongyi, Zoltan; Heymann, Paul; Garcia-Molina, Hector. Combating Spam in Tagging Systems.
Number of pages 15
Language English
Project Stanford InfoLab
Type Technical Report
Subject group Miscellaneous
Abstract Tagging systems allow users to interactively annotate a pool of shared resources using descriptive tags. As tagging systems are gaining in popularity, they become more susceptible to tag spam: misleading tags that are generated in order to increase visibility of some resources or simply to confuse users. We introduce a framework for modeling tagging systems and user tagging behavior. We also describe a method for ranking documents matching a tag based on taggers' reliability. Using our framework, we study the behavior of existing approaches under malicious attacks and the impact of a moderator and our ranking method.
Keywords tagging, spam
Contact address koutrika@stanford.edu
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