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Agent-mediated shared conceptualizations in tagging services

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Some of the most remarkable innovative technologies from the Web 2.0 are the collaborative tagging systems. They allow the use of folksonomies as a useful structure for a number of tasks in the social web, such as navigation and knowledge organization. One of the main deficiencies comes from the tagging behaviour of different users which causes semantic heterogeneity in tagging. As a consequence a user cannot benefit from the adequate tagging of others. In order to solve the problem, an agent-based reconciliation knowledge system, based on Formal Concept Analysis, is applied to facilitate the semantic interoperability between personomies. This article describes experiments that focus on conceptual structures produced by the system when it is applied to a collaborative tagging service, Delicious. Results will show the prevalence of shared tags in the sharing of common resources in the reconciliation process.

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  3. A pair of tags are related when both of them tag the same link by the same user.

  4. The set of common tags that both of them use, independent of wether or not these tags have been used in different urls or not.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been supported by TIN2009-09492 and TIN2010-20967-C04-01 projects of Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and Excellence project TIC-6064 of Junta de Andalucía cofinanced with FEDER founds.

The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions to improve the quality of the paper.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, Universidad de Huelva, Crta. Palos de La Frontera s/n. 21819, Palos de La Frontera, Huelva, Spain

    Gonzalo A. Aranda-Corral

  2. Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n. 41012, Sevilla, Spain

    Joaquín Borrego-Díaz

  3. Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

    Jesús Giráldez-Cru

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Aranda-Corral, G.A., Borrego-Díaz, J. & Giráldez-Cru, J. Agent-mediated shared conceptualizations in tagging services. Multimed Tools Appl 65, 5–28 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1146-5

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