@inproceedings{fc5980a19113456d9b1e08bacb2b29e8,
title = "Social tags: Meaning and suggestions",
abstract = "This paper aims to quantify two common assumptions about social tagging: (1) that tags are {"}meaningful{"} and (2) that the tagging process is influenced by tag suggestions. For (1), we analyze the semantic properties of tags and the re-lationship between the tags and the content of the tagged page. Our analysis is based on a corpus of search keywords, contents, titles, and tags applied to several thousand popu-lar Web pages. Among other results, we find that the more popular tags of a page tend to be the more meaningful ones. For (2), we develop a model of how the influence of tag sug-gestions can be measured. From a user study with over 4,000 participants, we conclude that roughly one third of the tag applications may be induced by the suggestions. Our results would be of interest for designers of social tagging systems and are a step towards understanding how to best leverage social tags for applications such as search and information extraction.",
keywords = "Search, Social tagging",
author = "Suchanek, \{Fabian M.\} and Milan Vojnovi{\'c} and Dinan Gunawardena",
year = "2008",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1145/1458082.1458114",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781595939913",
series = "International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings",
pages = "223--232",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'08",
note = "17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'08 ; Conference date: 26-10-2008 Through 30-10-2008",
}