Title
Contextualising tags in collaborative tagging systems
Abstract
Collaborative tagging systems are now popular tools for organising and sharing information on the Web. While collaborative tagging offers many advantages over the use of controlled vocabularies, they also suffer from problems such as the existence of polysemous tags. We investigate how the different contexts in which individual tags are used can be revealed automatically without consulting any external resources. We consider several different network representations of tags and documents, and apply a graph clustering algorithm on these networks to obtain groups of tags or documents corresponding to the different meanings of an ambiguous tag. Our experiments show that networks which explicitly take the social context into account are more likely to give a better picture of the semantics of a tag.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1557914.1557958
Hypertext 1999
Keywords
Field
DocType
different meaning,different context,collaborative tagging system,controlled vocabulary,ambiguous tag,polysemous tag,individual tag,contextualising tag,different network representation,better picture,collaborative tagging,semantics,social context,graph clustering,col
World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Computer science,Controlled vocabulary,Folksonomy,Clustering coefficient,Semantics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
36
1.48
30
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ching-Man Au Yeung147126.64
Nicholas Gibbins278669.35
Nigel Shadbolt34273321.53