Comments on: The Efficiency of Social Tagging http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/04/23/the-efficiency-of-social-tagging/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel Tunkelang http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/04/23/the-efficiency-of-social-tagging/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Daniel Tunkelang Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:08:00 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=13#comment-32 <a HTTP://HEYMANN.STANFORD.EDU/IMPROVEWEBSEARCH.HTML HREF="" REL="nofollow">Paul Heymann and colleagues</a> conclude that "URLs produced by social bookmarking are unlikely to be numerous enough to impact the crawl ordering of a major [web] search engine, and the tags produced are unlikely to be much more useful than a full text search emphasizing page titles." Paul Heymann and colleagues conclude that “URLs produced by social bookmarking are unlikely to be numerous enough to impact the crawl ordering of a major [web] search engine, and the tags produced are unlikely to be much more useful than a full text search emphasizing page titles.”

]]> By: Daniel Tunkelang http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/04/23/the-efficiency-of-social-tagging/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Daniel Tunkelang Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:02:00 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=13#comment-31 Daniel, thanks for the links! Funny how <a HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_drawing" REL="nofollow">graph drawing</a> has kept coming up this week. I thought I'd left that life behind <a HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quixote/#Graph%20Layout" REL="nofollow">a decade ago</a>! Daniel, thanks for the links! Funny how graph drawing has kept coming up this week. I thought I’d left that life behind a decade ago!

]]> By: Daniel Lemire http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/04/23/the-efficiency-of-social-tagging/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Daniel Lemire Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:01:00 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=13#comment-30 Tagging like all metadata does not help IR very much (Zobel has a paper on this, circa 2005).<br/><br/>However, tagging did inspire me some ideas, here are a couple of plugs:<br/><br/>Kamel Aouiche, Daniel Lemire, Robert Godin, Collaborative OLAP with Tag Clouds: Web 2.0 OLAP Formalism and Experimental Evaluation, WEBIST 2008, 2008.<br/><br/>http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2156<br/><br/><br/>Owen Kaser and Daniel Lemire, Tag-Cloud Drawing: Algorithms for Cloud Visualization. In proceedings of Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization (WWW 2007), 2007.<br/><br/>http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DS/0703109 Tagging like all metadata does not help IR very much (Zobel has a paper on this, circa 2005).

However, tagging did inspire me some ideas, here are a couple of plugs:

Kamel Aouiche, Daniel Lemire, Robert Godin, Collaborative OLAP with Tag Clouds: Web 2.0 OLAP Formalism and Experimental Evaluation, WEBIST 2008, 2008.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2156

Owen Kaser and Daniel Lemire, Tag-Cloud Drawing: Algorithms for Cloud Visualization. In proceedings of Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization (WWW 2007), 2007.

http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DS/0703109

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