Managing Social Image Tags: Methods and Applications

Aixin Sun, Sourav S. Bhowmick

Abstract: Social tags describe images from many aspects including the visual content observable from the images, the context and usage of images, user opinions and others. We present an overview of a tutorial on social image tags management - an approach to solve the management of tags associated with social images on the Web. Social image tags management defines a set of techniques for measuring effectiveness of tags in describing its annotated resources, discovering relationships between tags and how such knowledge is useful for various tag-based social media management applications such as tag recommendation, tag disambiguation and tag-based browsing systems. This tutorial offers an introduction to these issues and a synopsis of the state-of-the-art.

External IDs:dblp:conf/dasfaa/SunB11