Collaborative Tagging and Semiotic Dynamics Export

@article{Cattuto:2006, abstract = {Collaborative tagging has been quickly gaining ground because of its ability to recruit the activity of web users into effectively organizing and sharing vast amounts of information. Here we collect data from a popular system and investigate the statistical properties of tag co-occurrence. We introduce a stochastic model of user behavior embodying two main aspects of collaborative tagging: (i) a frequency-bias mechanism related to the idea that users are exposed to each other's tagging activity; (ii) a notion of memory - or aging of resources - in the form of a heavy-tailed access to the past state of the system. Remarkably, our simple modeling is able to account quantitatively for the observed experimental features, with a surprisingly high accuracy. This points in the direction of a universal behavior of users, who - despite the complexity of their own cognitive processes and the uncoordinated and selfish nature of their tagging activity - appear to follow simple activity patterns.}, author = {Cattuto, Ciro and Loreto, Vittorio and Pietronero, Luciano}, citeulike-article-id = {4937378}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0605015}, eprint = {cs.CY/0605015}, journal = {PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America}, keywords = {file-import-09-06-23, model, tagging, temporaldynamics}, month = {May}, posted-at = {2009-06-23 22:36:49}, priority = {2}, title = {Collaborative Tagging and Semiotic Dynamics}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0605015}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - Cattuto:2006 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4937378 N2 - Collaborative tagging has been quickly gaining ground because of its ability to recruit the activity of web users into effectively organizing and sharing vast amounts of information. Here we collect data from a popular system and investigate the statistical properties of tag co-occurrence. We introduce a stochastic model of user behavior embodying two main aspects of collaborative tagging: (i) a frequency-bias mechanism related to the idea that users are exposed to each other's tagging activity; (ii) a notion of memory - or aging of resources - in the form of a heavy-tailed access to the past state of the system. Remarkably, our simple modeling is able to account quantitatively for the observed experimental features, with a surprisingly high accuracy. This points in the direction of a universal behavior of users, who - despite the complexity of their own cognitive processes and the uncoordinated and selfish nature of their tagging activity - appear to follow simple activity patterns. JF - PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America TI - Collaborative Tagging and Semiotic Dynamics KW - file-import-09-06-23 KW - model KW - tagging KW - temporaldynamics AU - Cattuto, Ciro AU - Loreto, Vittorio AU - Pietronero, Luciano PY - 2006/May// UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0605015 ER -