The vocabulary problem in human-system communication
Communications of the ACM
Labeling images with a computer game
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
Journal of Information Science
Dogear: Social bookmarking in the enterprise
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The complex dynamics of collaborative tagging
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An elementary social information foraging model
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Signpost from the masses: learning effects in an exploratory social tag search browser
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Emotion barometer of reading: user interface design of a social cataloging website
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Enhancing information scent: identifying and recommending quality tags
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
Personalized retrieval in social bookmarking
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
Individual and social behavior in tagging systems
Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data
Trail Patterns in Social Tagging Systems: Role of Tags as Digital Pheromones
FAC '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Foundations of Augmented Cognition. Neuroergonomics and Operational Neuroscience: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Tagging stream data for rich real-time services
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Detecting News Event from a Citizen Journalism Website Using Tags
AMT '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Active Media Technology
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Structures in collaborative tagging: an empirical analysis
ACSC '10 Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Australasian Conferenc on Computer Science - Volume 102
Tag expression: tagging with feeling
UIST '10 Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
bumpy, caution with merging: an exploration of tagging in a geowiki
Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Measuring attention intensity to web pages based on specificity of social tags
DASFAA'10 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Database systems for advanced applications
Automatic image semantic interpretation using social action and tagging data
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Investigation of localised centrality metrics for collaborative networks: what can they reveal?
AICS'09 Proceedings of the 20th Irish conference on Artificial intelligence and cognitive science
ISWC'10 Proceedings of the 9th international semantic web conference on The semantic web - Volume Part I
Examining the impact of collaborative tagging on sensemaking in nutrition management
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CommentSpace: structured support for collaborative visual analysis
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A method for the classification of folksonomy resources
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Tags vs shelves: from social tagging to social classification
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Identifying relevant social media content: leveraging information diversity and user cognition
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Enhancing the navigability of social tagging systems with tag taxonomies
i-KNOW '11 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies
NAVTAG: a network-theoretic framework to assess and improve the navigability of tagging systems
ICWE'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Web engineering
Word familiarity distributions to understand heaps' law of vocabulary growth of the internet forums
KES'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part III
Building directories for social tagging systems
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Navigational efficiency of broad vs. narrow folksonomies
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM conference on Hypertext and social media
Evaluating tag-based information access in image collections
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM conference on Hypertext and social media
A social inverted index for social-tagging-based information retrieval
Journal of Information Science
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Harnessing collective intelligence in social tagging using Delicious
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Ranking Tagged Resources Using Social Semantic Relevance
International Journal of Information Retrieval Research
Pay by the bit: an information-theoretic metric for collective human judgment
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Focused crawling of tagged web resources using ontology
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Unsupervised mining of frequent tags for clinical eligibility text indexing
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
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Given the rise in popularity of social tagging systems, it seems only natural to ask how efficient is the organically evolved tagging vocabulary in describing underlying document objects? Does this distributed process really provide a way to circumnavigate the traditional "vocabulary problem" with ontology? We analyze a social tagging site, namely del.icio.us, with information theory in order to evaluate the efficiency of this social tagging site for encoding navigation paths to information sources. We show that information theory provides a natural and interesting way to understand this efficiency - or the descriptive, encoding power of tags. Our results indicate the efficiency of tags appears to be waning. We discuss the implications of our findings and provide insight into how our methods can be used to design more usable social tagging software.