Understanding the meaning of tags

The power of social tagging

Classifying Trending Topics: A Typology of Conversation Triggers on Twitter

My paper with Damiano Spina, Víctor Fresno and Raquel Martínez entitled Classifying Trending Topics: A Typology of Conversation Triggers on Twitter has been accepted for publication and presentation at CIKM 2011, 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management to be held in Glasgow, Scotland, from October 24 to 28, 2011. Abstract Twitter summarizes the [...]  2011/07/29 - 11:07:05

Tags vs Shelves: From Social Tagging to Social Classification

My paper with Christian Körner and Markus Strohmaier entitled Tags vs Shelves: From Social Tagging to Social Classification has been accepted for publication and presentation at HT 2011, the 22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia to be held in Eindhoven, Netherlands, from June 6 to 9, 2011. Abstract Recent research has shown that different [...]  2011/04/26 - 11:41:03

Suggesting tags is not always a good idea

When we are tagging a resource on a social tagging system, it could save us work by suggesting us tags for that resource. Therefore, we can choose the tags we consider relevant or representative for us. This tag suggestion can be performed in several ways, e.g., by suggesting tags that other users have annotated earlier [...]  2010/11/03 - 22:04:04

A Call for Social Tagging Datasets

Christian Körner and Markus Strohmaier, from the Graz University of Technology, in Austria, have published an article on social tagging datasets in the latest issue of the ACM SIGWEB Newsletter. Existing social tagging datasets have been listed there, including our 3 datasets: DeliciousT140, Wiki10+ and Social-ODP-2k9. Have a look at it! Share/Save  2010/01/25 - 18:45:04

Wiki10+: a Wikipedia-based social tagging dataset

Wiki10+, a dataset with 20,764 annotated English Wikipedia articles is now available for download. This dataset includes that many Wikipedia articles, with their corresponding social tags retrieved from Delicious. The dataset, including both articles content and social tags, can be downloaded from here. Share/Save  2009/11/16 - 23:40:03

TaggedWiki: A prototype on tags over Wikipedia

I have recently prepared a prototype based on Wikipedia, integrating a tagging system on it. I did it for my presentation at Wikimania 2009, entitled Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags . This prototype allows us to evaluate whether a social tagging system would improve and enhance article navigation and search on Wikipedia. Visit the [...]  2009/08/29 - 03:46:05

Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags (slides)

If you are interested in my presentation about Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags , in Wikimania 2009, you can download the slides using the following links: English Spanish Share/Save  2009/08/29 - 03:46:05

Getting the Most Out of Social Annotations for Web Page Classification

Our paper Getting the Most Out of Social Annotations for Web Page Classification has been accepted for publication and presentation at DocEng 2009, the 9th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering to be held in Munich, Germany, from September 15 to 18, 2009. Abstract User-generated annotations on social bookmarking sites can provide interesting and promising metadata [...]  2009/07/28 - 04:28:03

Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web

I ve recently read the book Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web , by Gene Smith, an interesting overview on the art of tagging. I would recommend it to whomever is interested in discovering what tags mean, and even to those experts willing to deal with tagging in depth. Next, I present a brief summary on [...]  2009/07/08 - 04:15:03

Clasificación de Páginas Web con Anotaciones Sociales

Our paper Clasificación de Páginas Web con Anotaciones Sociales has been accepted for publication and presentation at SEPLN 2009, XXV edición del Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural to be held in Donostia-San Sebastián, from September 8 to 10, 2009. Abstract Las anotaciones generadas por usuarios en sistemas de [...]  2009/06/20 - 03:41:02