• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.59-74
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• 2011

As more users are willingly participating in the creation of web contents, flat folksonomy using simple tags has emerged as a powerful instrument to classify and share a huge amount of knowledge on the web. However, flat folksonomy has semantic problems, such as ambiguity and misunderstanding of tags. To alleviate such problems, many studies have built structured folksonomy with a hierarchical structure or relationships among tags. However, structured folksonomy also has some fundamental problems, such as limited tagging to pre-defined vocabulary for new tags and the timeconsuming manual effort required for selecting tags. To resolve these problems, we suggested a new method of attaching a categorized tag (CT), followed by its category, to web content. CTs are automatically integrated into collaboratively-built structured folksonomy (CSF) in real time, reflecting the tag-and-category relationships by majority users. Then, we developed a CT-based knowledge organization system (CTKOS), which builds the CSF to classify organizational knowledge and allows us to locate the appropriate knowledge.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.75-94
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• 2010

This study designed a pilot system in which queries can be expanded through a tag ontology where equivalent, synonymous, or related tags are bound together, in order to improve the retrieval effectiveness of videos. We evaluated the proposed pilot system by comparing it to a tag-based system without tag control, in terms of recall and precision rates. Our study results showed that the mean recall rate in the structured folksonomy-based system was statistically higher than that in the tag-based system. On the other hand, the mean precision rate in the structured folksonomy-based system was not statistically higher than that in the tag-based system. The result of this study can be utilized as a guide on how to effectively use tags as social metadata of digital video libraries.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.117-135
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• 2010

We designed a structured folksonomy system in which queries can be expanded through tag control; equivalent, synonym or related tags are bound together, in order to improve the retrieval efficiency (recall and precision) of image data. Then, we evaluated the proposed system by comparing it to a tag-based system without tag control in terms of recall, precision, and user satisfaction. Furthermore, we also investigated which query expansion method is the most efficient in terms of retrieval performance. The experimental results showed that the recall, precision, and user satisfaction rates of the proposed system are statistically higher than the rates of the tag-based system, respectively. On the other hand, there are significant differences among the precision rates of query expansion methods but there are no significant differences among their recall rates. The proposed system can be utilized as a guide on how to effectively index and retrieve the digital content of digital library systems in the Library 2.0 era.