Our paper I Tag, You Tag: Translating Tags for Advanced User Models has been accepted for the WSDM conference. In the paper we analyze the tagging behavior of users from two real-world folksonomies, namely Delicious and Bibsonomy, and find that (from the abstract)

… individual users develop highly personalized vocabularies of tags. While these meet individual needs and preferences, the considerable differences between personal tag vocabularies (personomies) impede services such as social search or customized tag recommendation. In this paper, we introduce a novel user-centric tag model that allows us to derive mappings between personal tag vocabularies and the corresponding folksonomies. Using these mappings, we can infer the meaning of user-assigned tags and can predict choices of tags a user may want to assign to new items. Furthermore, our translational approach helps in reducing common problems related to tag ambiguity, synonymous tags, or multilingualism.

If you want to read the paper before it appears on the official ACM repository click here.

The conference will take place from 3-6 February in New York. The list of accepted papers looks very promising, and I am really looking forward to see all the presentations.