Social Semantic Bookmarking with SOBOLEO

An important challenge for today’s internet users is the recovery of internet resources that they had once found interesting and useful; as well as the discovery of new interesting information. Social bookmarking systems (such as delicious1) can aid in these tasks by supporting users in the collection, management and sharing of bookmarks; i.e. references to such resources and information. For organization, navigations and searching these systems utilize tags. Tags are arbitrary keywords that are used by the users to further describe the internet resources in order to aid their retrieval. Tags are renowned for their flexibility and ease of use, because just any tag can be used and there is no overhead for vocabulary management. However, this missing structure is also the root cause for a number of problems plaguing tagging and hampering tag-based retrieval: AbsTRACT