Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems
Heymann, P. & Garcia-Molina, H.
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 first discuss the algorithm and then present a preliminary model to explain why it is so effective in these types of systems.
Dogear: Social bookmarking in the enterprise
Millen, D. R.; Feinberg, J. & Kerr, B.
, 'CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems', ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, [http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124792], 111-120 (2006)
Emergent semantics
Staab, S.; Santini, S.; Nack, F.; Steels, L. & Maedche, A.
The article discusses ways to let semantics emerge from simple observations from the bottom-up, rather than imposing concepts on the observations top-down, to provide precise query, retrieval, communication or translation for a wide variety of applications. The following areas are examined: image retrieval and databases; media information spaces including the Semantic Web and MPEG frameworks; language games for emergent semantics; and emergent semantics for ontologies