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Tag Disambiguation through Flickr and Wikipedia

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Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2010)

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Given the popularity of social tagging systems and the limitations these systems have, due to lack of any structure, a common issue that arises involves the low retrieval quality in such systems due to ambiguities of certain terms. In this paper, an approach for improving the retrieval in these systems, in case of ambiguous terms, is presented that attempts to perform tag disambiguation and, at the same time, provide users with relevant content. The idea is based on a mashup that combines data and functionality of two major web 2.0 sites, namely Flickr and Wikipedia and aims at enhancing content retrieval for web users. A case study with the ambiguous notion “Apple” illustrates the value of the proposed approach.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Anastasia Stampouli, Eirini Giannakidou & Athena Vakali

  2. Centre of Research & Technology - Hellas, Informatics and Telematics Institute, 6th km Harilaou - Thermi, 57001, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Eirini Giannakidou

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  1. Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Masatoshi Yoshikawa

  2. Information School, Renmin University of China, 100872, Beijing, China

    Xiaofeng Meng

  3. Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji, 671-2280, Hyogo, Japan

    Takayuki Yumoto

  4. Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshidahonmachi, Sakyo, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Qiang Ma

  5. Institute of HCI and Media Integration, Tsinghua University, 100084, Bejing, China

    Lifeng Sun

  6. Department of Information Science, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1, Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, 112-8610, Tokyo, Japan

    Chiemi Watanabe

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Stampouli, A., Giannakidou, E., Vakali, A. (2010). Tag Disambiguation through Flickr and Wikipedia. In: Yoshikawa, M., Meng, X., Yumoto, T., Ma, Q., Sun, L., Watanabe, C. (eds) Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6193. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14589-6_26

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