Towards extracting flickr tag semantics

We address the problem of extracting semantics of tags ? short, unstructured text-labels assigned to resources on the Web ? based on each tag's metadata patterns. In particular, we describe an approach for extracting place and event semantics for tags that are assigned to photos on Flickr, a popular photo sharing website supporting time and location (latitude/longitude) metadata. The approach can be generalized to other domains where text terms can be extracted and associated with metadata patterns, such as geoannotated web pages. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4 [Information Systems Applications]: Miscellaneous Keywords tagging systems, event identification, place identification, word semantics

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Tye Rattenbury, Nathan Good, Mor Naaman
• Keywords: Event Semantics, Internet Technology, Keywords Tagging Systems, Metadata Patterns, WWW 2007