Discovering and exploiting semantics in folksonomies
Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi · 2011
In recent years folksonomies have captured attention of both common web users and scientific researchers. Nowadays, folksonomies are available for sharing almost any type of media, some examples include bookmarks 1, publications 2, images 3 and videos 4. Despite of the enormous size of folksonomies 5, resource retrieval in folksonomies is limited[5]. Currently its difficult to retrieve resources for uncommon queries (e.g. 1930s, penny) or browse resources of a particular type (e.g. images of landmarks). In this paper, we propose methods to discover semantics and exploit the discovered semantics to improve search and search experience in folksonomies.