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Nowadays, folksonomies are currently the simplest way to classify information inWeb 2.0. However, such folksonomies increase continuously their amount of information without any centralized control, complicating the knowledge representation. We analyse a method to group resources of collaborative-social tagging systems in semantic categories. It is able to automatically create the classification categories to represent the current knowledge and to self-adapt to the changes of the folksonomies, classifying the resources under categories and creating/deleting them. As opposed to current proposals that require the re-evaluation of the whole folksonomy to maintain updated the categories, our method is an incremental aggregation technique which guarantees its adaptation to highly dynamic systems without requiring a full reassessment of the folksonomy.
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Astrain, J.J., Córdoba, A., Echarte, F., Villadangos, J. (2013). Evaluation of a Self-adapting Method for Resource Classification in Folksonomies. In: Uden, L., Herrera, F., Bajo Pérez, J., Corchado Rodríguez, J. (eds) 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations: Service and Cloud Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30867-3_1
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