Group Discovery in a CollaborativeTagging System

Tagging refers to the process of adding metadata to describe things by usingone or several words. Collaborative Tagging systems, which allow different webusers to tag web content like weblogs, pictures, and bookmarks and so on, haverecently gained great popularity on internet. There are already a gr...

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Main Author: Chen, Zijian
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi 2007
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-342569
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Summary:Tagging refers to the process of adding metadata to describe things by usingone or several words. Collaborative Tagging systems, which allow different webusers to tag web content like weblogs, pictures, and bookmarks and so on, haverecently gained great popularity on internet. There are already a greatvariety of debates on internet of the advantages and disadvantages ofcollaborative tagging systems from the aspect of information organizing. Inthis paper, we primarily focus on a collaborative tagging system for groups,more specifically; we try to provide the web users a kind of service in such asystem that can help them to discover their favorite groups. With regard togroup discovery, we will illustrate the users’ problems, the designing idea,the analysis of accuracy of result etc.