Title :
A Study on Community Formation in Collaborative Tagging Systems
Author :
Dichev, Christo ; Xu, Jinsheng ; Dicheva, Darina ; Zhang, Jinghua
Author_Institution :
Winston-Salem State Univ., Salem, NC
Abstract :
Current collaborative tagging systems do not allow community members to easily view available data related to their communities. In this paper, we present our study on community formation centered around common interests, utilizing data from del.icio.us. We propose an approach to clustering tags and users based on their similarity. We also report some practical results related to implicit grouping of tags and users.
Keywords :
groupware; pattern clustering; social networking (online); collaborative tagging system; community formation; data utilisation; tag clustering; tag similarity; Communities; Content management; Cultural differences; Entropy; Filtering; Intelligent agent; International collaboration; Navigation; Tagging; Vocabulary; collaborative tagging systems; community formation; community identification;
Conference_Titel :
Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2008. WI-IAT '08. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3496-1
DOI :
10.1109/WIIAT.2008.385
