Title : 
Collaborative Indexing and Knowledge Exploration: A Social Learning Model
         
        
            Author : 
Fu, Wai-Tat ; Dong, Wei
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A computational social learning model shows how meaning is constructed, shared, and learned through social tags contributed by Web users as they perform exploratory search.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Internet; indexing; learning (artificial intelligence); search engines; social networking (online); Web users; collaborative indexing; computational social learning model; exploratory search; social tags; Collaboration; Computational modeling; Knowledge representation; Learning systems; Semantics; Social factors; Tagging; cognitive model; collective intelligence; knowledge accommodation; knowledge assimilation; knowledge exploration; semantic imitation; social learning; social tagging;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Intelligent Systems, IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/MIS.2010.131