Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems Export

@techreport{heymann06, 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.}, author = {Heymann, Paul and Molina, Hector G.}, citeulike-article-id = {665786}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/2006-10}, institution = {Stanford InfoLab}, keywords = {atomique, facets, tagging}, local-url = {file://localhost/Users/marian/Documents/ref/heymann06.pdf}, posted-at = {2006-05-22 21:06:11}, priority = {2}, title = {Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems}, type = {Preliminary Technical Report}, url = {http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/2006-10}, year = {2006} }

TY - RPRT ID - heymann06 L3 - citeulike-article-id:665786 N2 - 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. TI - Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems KW - atomique KW - facets KW - tagging AU - Heymann, Paul AU - Molina, Hector PY - 2006/// UR - http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/2006-10 ER -