An experimental analysis of suggestions in collaborative tagging

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2009

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 108-115

  Bollen, Dirk ^a   Halpin, Harry ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed information systems; Information retrieval; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE TAGGING; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; FEED-BACK LOOP; LONG TAIL; POWER LAW; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PREFERENTIAL ATTACHMENTS; RICH GET RICHER; SELECTION PROCESS; TAGGING SYSTEMS; WEB-PAGE;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THESAURI; WEBSITES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 78649862094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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