TY - CONF AU - Hotho, Andreas AU - Jäschke, Robert AU - Schmitz, Christoph AU - Stumme, Gerd A2 - Sure, York A2 - Domingue, John T1 - Information Retrieval in Folksonomies: Search and Ranking T2 - The Semantic Web: Research and Applications PB - Springer C1 - Heidelberg PY - 2006/06 CY - VL - 4011 IS - SP - 411 EP - 426 UR - DO - KW - 2006 KW - folkrank KW - folksonomy KW - graph KW - iccs_example KW - information KW - l3s KW - mining KW - ol_web2.0 KW - pagerank KW - rank KW - ranking KW - retrieval KW - search KW - seminar2006 KW - testttag KW - trias_example KW - webzu KW - widely_related L1 - hotho2006information.pdf SN - N1 - N1 - AB - Social bookmark tools are rapidly emerging on the Web. In such systems users are setting up lightweight conceptual structures called folksonomies. The reason for their immediate success is the fact that no specific skills are needed for participating. At the moment, however, the information retrieval support is limited. We present a formal model and a new search algorithm for folksonomies,called FolkRank, that exploits the structure of the folksonomy. The proposed algorithm is also applied to findcommunities within the folksonomy and is used to structure search results. All findings are demonstrated on a large scale dataset. ER -