Automated tag clustering
July 11, 2006
Grigory Begelman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Computer Science Dpt), Frank Smadja (RawSugar) and I did a paper for www2006 called “automated tag clustering”. It deals with why clustering the tag space makes sense and how this could be done.
After the presentation at the tagging workshop at www2006 we felt the need to give our paper a more www-friendly, I-don’t-want-to-read-through-those-theoretical-equation-flooded-papers face.
So, here you go: Automated Tag Clustering: Improving search and exploration in the tag space. To read this document you should have a clue what tags are about, you should also know some tag services as delicious or flickr so you can understand the limitations these services currently have. (more…)