Survey on Social Tagging Techniques
- Manish Gupta ,
- Rui Li ,
- Zhijun Yin ,
- Jiawei Han
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Social tagging on online portals has become a trend now. It has emerged as one of the best ways of associating metadata with web objects. With the increase in the kinds of web objects becoming available, collaborative tagging of such objects is also developing along new dimensions. This popularity has led to a vast literature on social tagging. In this survey paper, we would like to summarize different techniques employed to study various aspects of tagging.