Presented at: 4th International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2011)
by Martin Atzmueller, Dominik Benz, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme
The existence of emergent semantics within social metadata(such as tags in bookmarking systems) has been proven by a large numberof successful approaches making the implicit semantic structures explicit.However, much less attention has been given to the factors which influencethe ’maturing’ process of these structures over time. A natural hypothesisis that tags become semantically more and more mature whenever manyusers use them in the same contexts. This would allow to describe atag by a specific and informative ’semantic fingerprint’ in the context oftagged resoures. However, the question of assessing the quality of suchfingerprints has been seldomly addressed.In this paper, we provide a systematic approach of mining semantic ma-turity profiles within folksonomy-based tag properties. Our ultimate goalis to provide a characterization of ’mature tags’. Additionally, we con-sider semantic information about the tags as a gold-standard source forthe characterization of the collected results. Our initial results suggestthat a suitable composition of tag properties allows the identification ofmore mature tag subsets. The presented work has implications for a number of problems related to social tagging systems, including tag ranking,tag recommendation, and the capturing of light-weight ontologies fromtagging data.
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