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Using Tag Recommendations to Homogenize Folksonomies in Microblogging Environments

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Social Informatics (SocInfo 2011)

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Microblogging applications such as Twitter are experiencing tremendous success. Twitter users use hashtags to categorize posted messages which aim at bringing order to the chaos of the Twittersphere. However, the percentage of messages including hashtags is very small and the used hashtags are very heterogeneous as hashtags may be chosen freely and may consist of any arbitrary combination of characters. This heterogeneity and the lack of use of hashtags lead to significant drawbacks in regards of the search functionality as messages are not categorized in a homogeneous way. In this paper we present an approach for the recommendation of hashtags suitable for the tweet the user currently enters which aims at creating a more homogeneous set of hashtags. Furthermore, users are encouraged to using hashtags as they are provided with suitable recommendations for hashtags.

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  1. Databases and Information Systems, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria

    Eva Zangerle, Wolfgang Gassler & Günther Specht

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  1. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Block N4, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

    Anwitaman Datta

  2. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Thompson Hall, 200 Hicks Way, 01003, Amherst, MA, USA

    Stuart Shulman

  3. Singapore Management University, Singapore

    Baihua Zheng

  4. Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University,, Roosevelt Rd., 10617, Taipei, Taiwan

    Shou-De Lin

  5. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Block N4, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

    Aixin Sun

  6. School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Rd, 178902, Singapore

    Ee-Peng Lim

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Zangerle, E., Gassler, W., Specht, G. (2011). Using Tag Recommendations to Homogenize Folksonomies in Microblogging Environments. In: Datta, A., Shulman, S., Zheng, B., Lin, SD., Sun, A., Lim, EP. (eds) Social Informatics. SocInfo 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6984. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24704-0_16

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