Title
Reducing Ambiguity in Tagging Systems with Folksonomy Search Expansion
Abstract
Search facilities are vital for folksonomy (or social tagging mechanism) based systems. Although these systems allow great malleability and adaptability, they also surfer from problems, such as ambiguity in the meaning of tags, flat organisation of tags and some degree of unstabilising factor on consensus about which tags best describe some certain Web resources. It has been argued that folksonomy structure can be enhanced by ontologies; however, as suggested by Hotho et al., a key question remains open: how to exploit the benefits of ontologies without bothering untrained users with its rigidity. In this paper, we propose an approach to address the problem of ambiguity in tagging systems by expanding folksonomy search with ontologies, which are completely transparent to users. Preliminary implementations and evaluations on the efficiency and the usefulness of such expansions are very promising.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-02121-3_49
ESWC
Keywords
Field
DocType
preliminary implementation,certain web resource,social tagging mechanism,flat organisation,great malleability,folksonomy structure,folksonomy search,key question,tagging systems,folksonomy search expansion,tagging system,search facility
Ontology (information science),Web resource,Adaptability,Data mining,World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Computer science,Exploit,Implementation,Folksonomy,Malleability,Ambiguity
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5554
0302-9743
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.75
26
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeff Z. Pan12218158.01
Stuart Taylor2120.75
Edward Thomas31719.54