Understanding the Semantics of Ambiguous Tags in Folksonomies

Au Yeung, C. M., Gibbins, N. and Shadbolt, N. (2007) Understanding the Semantics of Ambiguous Tags in Folksonomies. In: The International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution (ESOE2007) at ISWC/ASWC 2007, 12 November 2007, Busan, South Korea.

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Abstract

The use of tags to describe Web resources in a collaborative manner has experienced rising popularity among Web users in recent years. The product of such activity is given the name folksonomy, which can be considered as a scheme of organizing information in the users' own way. In this paper, we present a possible way to analyze the tripartite graphs - graphs involving users, tags and resources - of folksonomies and discuss how these elements acquire their meanings through their associations with other elements, a process we call mutual contextualization. In particular, we demonstrate how different meanings of ambiguous tags can be discovered through such analysis of the tripartite graph by studying the tag sf. We also discuss how the result can be used as a basis to better understand the nature of folksonomies.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Creator/Authors:	Ching Man Au Yeung Nicholas Gibbins Nigel Shadbolt
Keywords:	folksonomies, collaborative tagging, semantics
Research Group:	Current ECS Groups > Web and Internet Science Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Date:	November 2007
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Citations:	Google Scholar: 28
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ID Code:	14869
Last Modified:	23 Sep 2011 10:35
Deposited On:	18 Nov 2007 18:04 by Au Yeung, Ching Man

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