TY - CHAP AU - man Yeung, Ching AU - Gibbins, Nicholas AU - Shadbolt, Nigel A2 - Aberer, Karl A2 - Choi, Key-Sun A2 - Noy, Natasha A2 - Allemang, Dean A2 - Lee, Kyung-Il A2 - Nixon, Lyndon A2 - Golbeck, Jennifer A2 - Mika, Peter A2 - Maynard, Diana A2 - Mizoguchi, Riichiro A2 - Schreiber, Guus A2 - Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe T1 - Mutual Contextualization in Tripartite Graphs of Folksonomies T2 - The Semantic Web PB - Springer CY - Berlin / Heidelberg PY - 2007/ VL - 4825 IS - SP - 966 EP - 970 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_79 M3 - 10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_79 KW - context KW - folksonomies KW - ol_web2.0 KW - tagging L1 - SN - N1 - SpringerLink - Abstract N1 - AB - The use of tags to describe Web resources in a collaborative manner has experienced rising popularity among Web users in recent years. The product of such activity is given the name folksonomy, which can be considered as a scheme of organizing information in the users’ own way. This research work attempts to analyze tripartite graphs – graphs involving users, tags and resources – of folksonomies and discuss how these elements acquire their semantics through their associations with other elements, a process we call mutual contextualization. By studying such process, we try to identify solutions to problems such as tag disambiguation, retrieving documents of similar topics and discovering communities of users. This paper describes the basis of the research work, mentions work done so far and outlines future plans. ER -