Extracting Tag Hierarchies

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 12; p. e84133
• Main Authors: Tibély, Gergely, Pollner, Péter, Vicsek, Tamás, Palla, Gergely
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 31.12.2013; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Analysis; Annotations; Biology; Collaboration; Computer Science; Data collection; Engineering; Hierarchies; Humans; Information Dissemination - methods; Interpersonal Relations; Marking; Mathematics; Online Systems; Ontology; Pattern Recognition, Automated; Photography; Physics; Proteins - metabolism; Recommender systems; Scientific papers; Search Engine - methods; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Subject Headings; Tagging; Tags; Hungary

Tagging items with descriptive annotations or keywords is a very natural way to compress and highlight information about the properties of the given entity. Over the years several methods have been proposed for extracting a hierarchy between the tags for systems with a "flat", egalitarian...