Searching and Tagging: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

• Main Authors: MEI, Qiaozhu, JIANG, Jing, SU, Hang, ZHAI, ChengXiang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: social bookmarking; query logs; tagging records; duality analysis; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1043; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2042/viewcontent/UIUCDCS_R_2007_2919.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper presents the duality hypothesis of search and tagging, two important behaviors of web users. The hypothesis states that if a user views a document D in the search results for query Q, the user would tend to assign document $D$ a tag identical to or similar to Q; similarly, if a user tags...