TY - GEN
T1 - An examination of the effectiveness of social tagging for resource discovery
AU - Goh, Dion Hoe Lian
AU - Lee, Chei Sian
AU - Chua, Alton Y.K.
AU - Razikin, Khasfariyati
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Social tagging allows users to assign keywords (tags) to resources facilitating their future access by the tag creator, and possibly by other users. In terms of its support for resource discovery, social tagging has both proponents and critics. The goal of this paper investigates if tags are an effective means for helping users locate useful resources. Adopting techniques from text categorization, we downloaded Web pages and their associated tags from del.icio.us, and trained Support Vector Machine classifiers to determine if the documents could be assigned to their associated tags. Results from the classifiers in terms of precision, recall and Fl score were mixed, suggesting that that not all tags could be used by public users for resource discovery. Detailed analyses of our results revealed characteristics of effective and ineffective tags for resource discovery. From these, implications for social tagging systems are discussed.
AB - Social tagging allows users to assign keywords (tags) to resources facilitating their future access by the tag creator, and possibly by other users. In terms of its support for resource discovery, social tagging has both proponents and critics. The goal of this paper investigates if tags are an effective means for helping users locate useful resources. Adopting techniques from text categorization, we downloaded Web pages and their associated tags from del.icio.us, and trained Support Vector Machine classifiers to determine if the documents could be assigned to their associated tags. Results from the classifiers in terms of precision, recall and Fl score were mixed, suggesting that that not all tags could be used by public users for resource discovery. Detailed analyses of our results revealed characteristics of effective and ineffective tags for resource discovery. From these, implications for social tagging systems are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1109/INGS.2008.11
DO - 10.1109/INGS.2008.11
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:55349106220
SN - 9780769533001
T3 - Proceedings - 2008 International Workshop on Information-Explosion and Next Generation Search, INGS 2008
SP - 23
EP - 30
BT - Proceedings - 2008 1st International Workshop on Information-Explosion and Next Generation Search, INGS 2008
T2 - 2008 1st International Workshop on Information-Explosion and Next Generation Search, INGS 2008
Y2 - 26 April 2008 through 27 April 2008
ER -