Improving on Popularity as a Proxy for Generality When Building Tag Hierarchies from Folksonomies

Designing and building taxonomies (structures for the identification, classification and description of items) for the Web is time consuming and costly. “Folksonomies”, which are created by the website users themselves, have emerged, however, they can be ambiguous and can have an inconsistent structure. This research paper by Fahad Almoqhim, David E. Millard and Nigel Shadbolt, suggests an improved method (based on the Heymann-Benz algorithm).

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/372077/1/Improving%20on%20Popularity%20as%20a%20Proxy%20for%20Generality%20When%20Building%20Tag%20Hierarchies%20from%20Folksonomies.pdf