%0 Report %1 citeulike:635808 %A Heymann, Paul %A Garcia-Molina, Hector %D 2006 %J Stanford InfoLab Technical Report %K algorithm collaborative folksonomy social tagging taxonomy %N 2006-10 %T Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems %U http://heymann.stanford.edu/taghierarchy.html %X Collaborative tagging systems -- systems where many casual users annotate objects with free-form strings (tags) of their choosing -- have recently emerged as a powerful way to label and organize large collections of data. During our recent investigation into these types of systems, we discovered a simple but remarkably effective algorithm for converting a large corpus of tags annotating objects in a tagging system into a navigable hierarchical taxonomy of tags. We firrst discuss the algorithm and then present a preliminary model to explain why it is so effective in these types of systems.

@techreport{citeulike:635808, abstract = {Collaborative tagging systems -- systems where many casual users annotate objects with free-form strings (tags) of their choosing -- have recently emerged as a powerful way to label and organize large collections of data. During our recent investigation into these types of systems, we discovered a simple but remarkably effective algorithm for converting a large corpus of tags annotating objects in a tagging system into a navigable hierarchical taxonomy of tags. We firrst discuss the algorithm and then present a preliminary model to explain why it is so effective in these types of systems.}, added-at = {2008-04-07T15:01:33.000+0200}, author = {Heymann, Paul and Garcia-Molina, Hector}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/20af747ea3ff770f1943a31f8595c9c32/yish}, citeulike-article-id = {635808}, institution = {Stanford University}, interhash = {d77846b40aadb0e25233cabf905bb93e}, intrahash = {0af747ea3ff770f1943a31f8595c9c32}, journal = {Stanford InfoLab Technical Report}, keywords = {algorithm collaborative folksonomy social tagging taxonomy}, month = {April}, number = {2006-10}, organization = {Department of Computer Science}, priority = {3}, timestamp = {2008-04-07T15:01:33.000+0200}, title = {Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems}, url = {http://heymann.stanford.edu/taghierarchy.html}, year = 2006 }