On the distinctiveness of tags in collaborative tagging systems

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We study in a quantitative way whether the most popular tags in a collaborative tagging system are distinctive features when looking at the underlying content. For any set of annotations being helpful in searching, this property must necessarily hold to a strong degree. Our initial experiments show that the most frequent tags in CiteULike are distinctive features, despite the process of annotating documents is not centrally coordinated nor correction mechanisms like in a Wiki-system are used.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWIMS'11 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
EditorsRajendra Akerkar
Number of pages5
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Publication date25.05.2011
Pages1-5
Article number62
ISBN (print)978-145030148-0
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Publication statusPublished - 25.05.2011
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, WIMS'11 - Sogndal Auditorium 2, Sogndal, Norway
Duration: 25.05.201127.05.2011
http://wims.vestforsk.no/wims11.html
http://wims.vestforsk.no/wims11_schedule.pdf

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