articleApr 21, 2008Closed access

Flickr tag recommendation based on collective knowledge

BSBörkur SigurbjörnssonRVRoelof van Zwol

Yahoo (Spain)

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Abstract

Online photo services such as Flickr and Zooomr allow users to share their photos with family, friends, and the online community at large. An important facet of these services is that users manually annotate their photos using so called tags, which describe the contents of the photo or provide additional contextual and semantical information. In this paper we investigate how we can assist users in the tagging phase. The contribution of our research is twofold. We analyse a representative snapshot of Flickr and present the results by means of a tag characterisation focussing on how users tags photos and what information is contained in the tagging. Based on this analysis, we present and evaluate tag…

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  • Computer science
  • Snapshot (computer storage)
  • World Wide Web
  • Information retrieval
  • Annotation
  • Task (project management)
  • Set (abstract data type)
  • Recommender system
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