Spear: Spamming-resistant expertise analysis and ranking in collaborative tagging systems

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 458-488

  Yeung, Ching Man Au ^a   Noll, Michael G ^b   Gibbins, Nicholas ^c   Meinel, Christoph ^b   Shadbolt, Nigel ^c  

^a HONG KONG APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

collaborative tagging; expertise; folksonomy; HITS; ranking; spamming

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE TAGGING; EXPERTISE; FOLKSONOMIES; HITS; RANKING;

ALGORITHMS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; SPAMMING; THESAURI;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 80052985537     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: 14678640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8640.2011.00384.x     Document Type: Review

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