Weighing the usefulness of social tags for content discovery

• Main Authors: Khasfariyati Razikin, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Lee, Chei Sian, Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94464; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8198
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A new wave of social computing applications has empowered users to create and share a variety of content. This upsurge of user-generated data involves a paradigm shift in terms of the management, searching and accessing of information. Social tagging is one of these ways. This paper serves as an ext...