%0 %0 Conference Proceedings %A Krause, Beate; Schmitz, Christoph; Hotho, Andreas & Stumme, Gerd %D 2008 %T The Anti-Social Tagger - Detecting Spam in Social Bookmarking Systems %E %B AIRWeb '08: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web %C New York, NY, USA %I ACM %V %6 %N %P 61--68 %& %Y %S %7 %8 April %9 %? %! %Z %@ 978-1-60558-159-0 %( %) %* %L %M %1 %2 %3 inproceedings %4 %# %$ %F krause2008antisocial %K 2008, tagging, ol_web2.0, classification, widely_related, folksonomy, spam %X The annotation of web sites in social bookmarking systemshas become a popular way to manage and find informationon the web. The community structure of such systems attractsspammers: recent post pages, popular pages or specifictag pages can be manipulated easily. As a result, searchingor tracking recent posts does not deliver quality resultsannotated in the community, but rather unsolicited, oftencommercial, web sites. To retain the benefits of sharingone’s web content, spam-fighting mechanisms that can facethe flexible strategies of spammers need to be developed. %Z %U http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/2008/submissions/krause_2008_anti_social_tagger.pdf %+ %^