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Flickr Tags Network. Mustafa Kilavuz. Tags. A tag is a keyword Search , spam detection, reputation systems, personal organization and metadata. Usage. Social bookmarking Personal bookmarks Allows users to store and retrieve resources Social tagging systems
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Flickr Tags Network Mustafa Kilavuz
Tags • A tag is a keyword • Search, spam detection, reputation systems, personal organization and metadata
Usage • Social bookmarking • Personal bookmarks • Allows users to store and retrieve resources • Social tagging systems • Shared tags for particular resources • Each tag is a link to additional resources tagged the same way by other users • Folksonomy: popular tags
Vocabulary Problem • Different users use different terms to describe the same things • Polysemy: A single word has multiple meanings • Synonymy: Different words have the same meaning • Abstraction: Tagging a resource in different levels of abstraction • Animal, cat, Persian cat, Felissilvestriscatus longhair Persian • Different languages • Missing context: Tags that could not be related with the images by others • Holiday, me, friends, a person’s name
Tag Usage on Flickr • The tag usage is not mandatory in Flickr. • User can tag their friends’ photos. But within 58 million tag observed, the overwhelming majority are owner tags. • Most people has very few distinct tags while a small group has extremely large sets of tags.
Growth of distinct tags • 10 users are randomly chosen • Frequent uploaders ( > 100 photos) • Frequent taggers ( > 100 tags) • The number of distinct tags are observed as the number of photos uploaded increases.
Vocabulary Formation Vocabulary overlap distribution for random users and contacts
Information from a Flickr Photo • Useful • User • Upload date • Tags • View count • Groups • Other • Title • Description • Comments
Data Extraction Method • http://www.flickr.com/services/api/ • Iterate on each user • Iterate on each public photo of the user • Get all contacts and group information • Iterate on each group • Iterate on each photo in the group
Tripartite Network Model page person tag • Can project onto bipartite graphs • person – tag • tag – page • person – page • Can project onto one-mode graphs • person – person • tag – tag • person - page From LadaAdamic
Tag Network Model Sky Building 34 12 10 Window Cloud 80 2 54 28 Blue 4 23 Light
Geotags • Additional place information • Spatial distribution, places • San Francisco, museum • Temporal distribution, events • Burst of tagging in a small time interval
Clusters • Strongly connected tags • Flickr uses for years for searching
What we can do.. • Investigate clusters to get information about • Events and their relations • Interests and their relations • Etc.