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| Category | Value | ||
| Available via | http://dbpubs.stanford.edu/pub/2006-10 | ||
| Submitted on | 24th of April 2006 | ||
| Author | Heymann, Paul; Garcia-Molina, Hector | ||
| Title | Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems | ||
| Date of publication | April 2006 | ||
| Citation | Paul Heymann and Hector Garcia-Molina: Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems, Technical Report InfoLab 2006-10, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, April 2006. | ||
| Number of pages | 5 | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Project | Stanford InfoLab | ||
| Type | Technical Report | ||
| Subject group | Data Mining; Databases and the Web; Digital Libraries; Semistructured data | ||
| Abstract | Collaborative tagging systems---systems where many casual users annotate objects with free-form strings (tags) of their choosing---have recently emerged as a powerful way to label and organize large collections of data. During our recent investigation into these types of systems, we discovered a simple but remarkably effective algorithm for converting a large corpus of tags annotating objects in a tagging system into a navigable hierarchical taxonomy of tags. We first discuss the algorithm and then present a preliminary model to explain why it is so effective in these types of systems. | ||
| Keywords | Tagging, taxonomy, hierarchy, annotation, metadata management, CSCW. | ||
| Contact address | http://i.stanford.edu/~heymann/taghierarchy.html | ||
| Sponsored by | Supported by an NSF GRFP Fellowship. | ||
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