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Using tag recommendations to homogenize folksonomies in microblogging environments

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Wolfgang Gassler,

Günther SpechtAuthors Info & Claims

SocInfo'11: Proceedings of the Third international conference on Social informatics

Pages 113 - 126

Published: 06 October 2011 Publication History

Abstract

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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SocInfo'11: Proceedings of the Third international conference on Social informatics

October 2011

339 pages

ISBN:9783642247033

Editors:
Anwitaman Datta
Nanyang Technological University, School of Computer Engineering, Singapore
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Aixin Sun
Nanyang Technological University, School of Computer Engineering, Singapore
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Stuart Shulman
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
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Baihua Zheng
Singapore Management University, School of Information Systems, Singapore
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Ee-Peng Lim
Singapore Management University, School of Information Systems, Singapore

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