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WWW 2006 Tagging Workshop Proceedings

April 11, 2007 on 11:02 am | In Research, Retrieval, Social Software, Web2.0, search |

At the WWW 2006 a workshop on the topic tagging took place. There were several papers especially on folksonomies and emergent semantics. The proceedings are available online at: /hosted/taggingws-www2006-files/taggingworkshopschedule.htm The proceedings are hosted here as the original site is no longer available. (Many thanks to Frank Smadja, who provided the files and allowed to mirror them)

Keynote

• Tagging : From the personal to the social, Rashmi Sinha

Overview and Enterprise

• Position Paper, Tagging, Taxonomy, Flickr, Article, ToRead.
  Cameron Marlow, Mor Naaman, danah boyd, Marc Davis; Yahoo! Research and UC Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems.
• Fringe Contacts: People-Tagging for the Enterprise.
  Stephen Farrell and Tessa Lau IBM Almaden Research Center
• Collaborative Tagging and Expertise in the Enterprise
  Ajita John, Doree Seligmann, Avaya Labs Research.
• Onomi: Social Bookmarking on a Corporate Intranet.
  Laurie Damianos, John Griffith, Donna Cuomo; The MITRE Corporation

Mining the TagSpace

• “Automated Tag Clustering: Improving search and exploration in the tag space.”
  Grigory Begelman, Philipp Keller, Frank Smadja; Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Citrin Informatik GmbH and RawSugar.
• “Towards the Semantic Web: Collaborative Tag Suggestions.”
  Zhichen Xu, Yun Fu, Jianchang Mao, and Difu Su; Yahoo! Inc.
• “Integrating Collaborative Tagging and Emergent Semantics for Image Retrieval.”
  Melanie Aurnhammer, Luc Steels, Peter Hanappe; Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris and University of Brussels (VUB).
• “Inducing Ontology from Flickr Tags.”
  Patrick Schmitz University of California, Berkeley and Yahoo! Research, Berkeley.

Applications

• Foragr: Collaboratively Tagged Photographs and Social Information Visualization
  Brian M. Dennis, EECS Department and New Media Program Northwestern University
• Investigating social tagging and folksonomy in art museums with steve.museum
  Jennifer Trant, Bruce Wyman; Archives & Museum Informatics, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Denver Art Museum with the participants in the steve.museum project.
• Structured vs. unstructured tagging � A case study
  Judit Bar-Ilan, Snunith Shoham, Asher Idan, Yitzchak Miller and Aviv Shachak; Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel.
• Tagging the physical world
  Yoelle S. Maarek, Natalia Marmasse, Yaakov Navon, Vova Soroka, Google and IBM Haifa Research Lab

Demos

• Tressel: Semantic markup of RSS feeds
  Brian McLernon Nicholas Kushmerick, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Implicit Tagging using Donated Bookmarks
  Ben Markines, Lubomira Stoilova, and Filippo Menczer; Department of Computer Science, School of Informatics, Indiana University
• Tag-Based Navigation for Peer-to-Peer Wikipedia; Jenneke Fokker, Johan Pouwelse and Wray Buntine; Departments of Industrial Design and Computer Sciences Delft University of Technology The Netherlands and Department of Computer Science, Helsinki Institute of Information Technology