EXPERTISE CLASSIFICATION: COLLABORATIVE CLASSIFICATION VS. AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION

Authors

  • Toine Bogers
  • Willem Thoonen
  • Antal van den Bosch

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7152/acro.v17i1.12488

Abstract

Social classification is the process in which a community of users categorizes the resources in that community for their own use. Given enough users and categorization, this will lead to any given resource being represented by a set of labels or descriptors shared throughout the community (Mathes, 2004). Social classification has become an extremely popular way of structuring online communities in recent years. Well-known examples of such communities are the bookmarking websites Furl (http://www.furl.net/) and del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/), and Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/) where users can post their own photos and tag them.

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Published

2006-10-07