How useful are tags? - An empirical analysis of collaborative tagging for web page recommendation

Daniel Zeng; Huiqian Li

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-69304-8_32

How useful are tags? - An empirical analysis of collaborative tagging for web page recommendation

Daniel Zeng, Huiqian Li

Management Information Systems

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Abstract

As a representative Web 2.0 application, collaborative tagging has been widely adopted and inspires significant interest from academies. Roughly, two lines of research have been pursued: (a) studying the structure of tags, and (b) using tag to promote Web search. However, both of them remain preliminary. Research reported in this paper is aimed at addressing some of these research gaps. First, we apply complex network theory to analyze various structural properties of collaborative tagging activities to gain a detailed understanding of user tagging behavior and also try to capture the mechanism that can help explain such tagging behavior. Second, we conduct a preliminary computational study to utilize tagging information to help improve the quality of Web page recommendation. The results indicate that under the user-based recommendation framework, tags can be fruitfully exploited as they facilitate better user similarity calculation and help reduce sparsity related to past user-Web page interactions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Intelligence and Security Informatics - IEEE ISI 2008 International Workshops
Subtitle of host publication	PAISI, PACCF, and SOCO 2008, Proceedings
Pages	320-330
Number of pages	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69304-8_32
State	Published - Jul 1 2008
Event	IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2008 Workshops: PAISI, PACCF, and SOCO 2008 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: Jun 17 2008 → Jun 17 2008

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	5075 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Other

Other	IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2008 Workshops: PAISI, PACCF, and SOCO 2008
Country	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Taipei
Period	6/17/08 → 6/17/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)

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Zeng, D., & Li, H. (2008). How useful are tags? - An empirical analysis of collaborative tagging for web page recommendation. In Intelligence and Security Informatics - IEEE ISI 2008 International Workshops: PAISI, PACCF, and SOCO 2008, Proceedings (pp. 320-330). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5075 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69304-8_32

How useful are tags? - An empirical analysis of collaborative tagging for web page recommendation. / Zeng, Daniel; Li, Huiqian.

Intelligence and Security Informatics - IEEE ISI 2008 International Workshops: PAISI, PACCF, and SOCO 2008, Proceedings. 2008. p. 320-330 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5075 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Zeng, D & Li, H 2008, How useful are tags? - An empirical analysis of collaborative tagging for web page recommendation. in Intelligence and Security Informatics - IEEE ISI 2008 International Workshops: PAISI, PACCF, and SOCO 2008, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 5075 LNCS, pp. 320-330, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2008 Workshops: PAISI, PACCF, and SOCO 2008, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China, 6/17/08. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69304-8_32

Zeng D, Li H. How useful are tags? - An empirical analysis of collaborative tagging for web page recommendation. In Intelligence and Security Informatics - IEEE ISI 2008 International Workshops: PAISI, PACCF, and SOCO 2008, Proceedings. 2008. p. 320-330. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69304-8_32

Zeng, Daniel ; Li, Huiqian. / How useful are tags? - An empirical analysis of collaborative tagging for web page recommendation. Intelligence and Security Informatics - IEEE ISI 2008 International Workshops: PAISI, PACCF, and SOCO 2008, Proceedings. 2008. pp. 320-330 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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