Implicit Tagging using Donated Bookmarks
Ben Markines, Lubomira Stoilova, Filippo Menczer · 2006
GiveALink measures a social semantic similarity between URLs by combining social collaboration with the hierarchical structure of bookmark files. The majority of other social bookmarking tools today require users to manually tag the URLs they submit. The tagging approach has some limitations including the need for users to specify labels, the ambiguity of tag names, and a lack of clear relationships between them. GiveALink explores a different approach by inferring a similarity from the folder organization of bookmark files. This approach is automated, and builds a global similarity network of all URLs. Relationships are made independently of the Web resource content, hence GiveALink is able to relate movies, images, and pages without needing to crawl their contents. Applications for search, recommendation, and personalization are made available exploiting the similarity relationship. 1.