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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering >> 2016, Volume 17, Issue 2 doi: 10.1631/FITEE.1500187

A social tag clustering method based on common co-occurrence group similarity

1. School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
2. School of Economics and Management, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan 232001, China
3. School of Computer, Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou 363000, China

Received: 2015-06-11 Accepted: 2016-02-02 Available online: 2016-02-26

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Abstract

Social tagging systems are widely applied in Web 2.0. Many users use these systems to create, organize,manage, and share Internet resources freely. However, many ambiguous and uncontrolled tags produced by social tagging systems not only worsen users’ experience, but also restrict resources’ retrieval efficiency. Tag clustering can aggregate tags with similar semantics together, and help mitigate the above problems. In this paper, we first present a common co-occurrence group similarity based approach, which employs the ternary relation among users,resources, and tags to measure the semantic relevance between tags. Then we propose a spectral clustering method to address the high dimensionality and sparsity of the annotating data. Finally, experimental results show that the proposed method is useful and efficient.

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