Understanding the efficiency of social tagging systems using information theory

HYPERTEXT'08: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT'08 with Creating'08 and WebScience'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 81-88

  Chi, Ed H ^a   Mytkowicz, Todd ^b  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Entropy; Evaluation; Information access; Information theory; Methodology; Navigation; Ontology; Social tagging

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PROCESSES; EVALUATION; INFORMATION ACCESS; INFORMATION SOURCES; METHODOLOGY; NAVIGATION PATHS; SOCIAL TAGGING;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; ONTOLOGY; THESAURI;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 57349141889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1379092.1379110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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