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HCI
2009
15 years 3 months ago
Trail Patterns in Social Tagging Systems: Role of Tags as Digital Pheromones
The popularity of social information systems has been driven by their ability to help users manage, organize and share online resources. Though the research exploring the use of ta...
Thomas George Kannampallil, Wai-Tat Fu
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
KDD
2010
ACM
235views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
15 years 10 months ago
The topic-perspective model for social tagging systems
In this paper, we propose a new probabilistic generative model, called Topic-Perspective Model, for simulating the generation process of social annotations. Different from other g...
Caimei Lu, Xiaohua Hu, Xin Chen, Jung-ran Park, Ti...
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Social tags: meaning and suggestions
This paper aims to quantify two common assumptions about social tagging: (1) that tags are “meaningful” and (2) that the tagging process is influenced by tag suggestions. For...
Fabian M. Suchanek, Milan Vojnovic, Dinan Gunaward...
UM
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Interweaving Public User Profiles on the Web
While browsing the Web, providing profile information in social networking services, or tagging pictures, users leave a plethora of traces. In this paper, we analyze the nature of ...
Fabian Abel, Nicola Henze, Eelco Herder, Daniel Kr...