A quantitative analysis of collaborative tags: Evaluation for information retrieval-a preliminary study

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 376-381

  Gelernter, J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative tags; Information retrieval; Recall; Social tagging; Tag cloud

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLOUDS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES;

COLLABORATIVE TAGS; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; RECALL; SOCIAL TAGGING; TAG CLOUD;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 51349112151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553859     Document Type: Conference Paper

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