Characterizing users tagging behavior in academic blogs

Abstract

Along with popular of academic social media, academic blogs are one of the user generated academic information that can be annotated using social tags for user's information retrieval and organization. In order to improve the existing social tagging system to satisfy the users' needs, users' tagging behavior need to be understood. However, there is no researches on characterizing user tagging behaviors of academic resources. In this paper, using the tag of academic blog as the research object, the author analyze user's tagging behaviors based on the characteristics of tags (tags-based features) and those related to blog contents (content-based features). These characteristics can be used to the academic tagging system to promote organization and propagation of academic knowledge.