Mutual Contextualization in Tripartite Graphs of Folksonomies
Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and
2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC/ASWC2007), Busan, South Korea, Volume 4825 von LNCS, Seite 960--964. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Verlag, (November 2007)Zusammenfassung
The use of tags to describe Web resources in a collaborative manner
has experienced rising popularity among Web users in recent years.
The product of such activity is given the name folksonomy, which
can be considered as a scheme of organizing information in the users'
own way. This research work attempts to analyze tripartite graphs
- graphs involving users, tags and resources - of folksonomies and
discuss how these elements acquire their semantics through their
associations with other elements, a process we call mutual contextualization.
By studying such process, we try to identify solutions to problems
such as tag disambiguation, retrieving documents of similar topics
and discovering communities of users. This paper describes the basis
of the research work, mentions work done so far and outlines future
plans.
